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The Neurochemistry of Forgiving and ForgettingThe findings suggest that oxytocin helps us maintain relationships by decreasing our fear of betrayal and other potential negative consequences of interacting with others, says Mauricio Delgado, a cognitive neuroscientist at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey. "Humans are typically averse towards social risks, so a little bit of oxytocin may facilitate carrying on relationships with others," he says.
The findings raise the possibility that social phobia is caused in part by a defect in how oxytocin normally regulates brain activity, Baumgartner says. Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, a neuroscientist at the Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim, Germany, suggests that oxytocin signaling could also be disrupted in other disorders in which lack of trust or social attachment is a prominent problem, such as autism and schizophrenia. [ link to www.sciencemag.org (secure)] Oxytocin & the Biochemical Effects of BetrayalThe neuroeconomist Ernst Fehr adds: “We have discovered significant elements of the neural basis of trust after a betrayal of trust has taken place. In view of the importance of trust in human social interaction, these results open up the possibility of being able to fathom and increase our general understanding of the neurophysiological basis of prosocial behavior.” [ link to psychcentral.com (secure)]
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