Oxytocin — the Love Drug’s Double Nature
Hans Gets Thrown Under the Bus
8 min readMar 7, 2022
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The big picture
- The neurotransmitter, oxytocin, both up-regulates and down-regulates empathy. It makes Us more us-like and Them more them-like.
- Our Us vs Them reaction is fast thinking — a knee jerk response
- Since it can’t be eliminated, it must be…