Oxytocin and social bonding
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Oxytocin is thought to play an important role in social bonding, stress regulation, and mental health. Known also as the “love hormone”, oxytocin is associated with trust, sexual arousal, relationship building, and reproduction. Work in animals has demonstrated that oxytocin induces maternal behaviour and work in humans links oxytocin to parent-infant bonding, thus suggesting that it might be critical for regulating attachment behaviours.
This Collection welcomes research articles from both Psychology and Neuroscience investigating the role of oxytocin in promoting all aspects of social behaviour in both animals and humans.
Editors
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Mariana Pereira, PhD
University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
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James C. Walton, PhD
West Virginia University, USA
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Accepted papers are published on a rolling basis as soon as they are ready.
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