Oxytocin — the Love Drug’s Double Nature

Hans Gets Thrown Under the Bus

Alan Tabor
8 min readMar 7, 2022

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Gratuitous Brian Ferry photo — Bryan singing Love is the Drug
Gratuitous Bryan Ferry PR Photo

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…

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Alan Tabor

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