Oxytocin, the luv hormone, makes us more prosocial to Us and worse to everyone else. That’s not generic prosociality. That’s ethnocentrism and xenophobia. In other words, the actions of these neuropeptides depend dramatically on context—who you are, your environment, and who that person is. As we will see in chapter 8, the same applies to the regulation of genes relevant to these neuropeptides.
calling hating your enemis- like some Finns hating Russians - who want to kill your children for xenophobia is problematic. Maybe it is more like caring and loving thus hating
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I am not sure if in your example oxitocin plays…