Social neuroscience: Oxytocin boosts social awareness
Nature Reviews Neuroscience 13, 72 (2012). doi:10.1038/nrn3185
Author: Katherine Whalley
Sensitivity to the experiences of others contributes to many social behaviours including empathy and cooperation. Here, the authors show that oxytocin influences social behaviour in rhesus macaques in a context-dependent manner. When the monkeys had to choose whether to deliver a reward to another monkey
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