The neural basis of empathy and prosociality has received much interest over the past
decades. Neuroimaging studies localized a network of brain regions with activity that …

Highlights•Oxytocin is well known for its prosocial effects on behavior.•Recent studies have
highlighted antisocial effects in animal and human studies.•Both oxytocin and social …

Why share when access to benefits is uncertain is crucial to our understanding of the
evolution of humans' extensive cooperation. Here, we investigated some of the different …

Across species, oxytocin, an evolutionarily ancient neuropeptide, facilitates social
communication by attuning individuals to conspecifics' social signals, fostering trust and …

A central premise of the science of comparative affect is that we can best learn about the
causes and consequences of affect by comparing affective phenomena across a variety of …

The origins of evolutionary games are rooted in both economics and animal behaviour, but
economics has, until recently, focused primarily on humans. Although historically, specific …

Social isolation is a major source of stress and can lead to activation of the hypothalamic-
pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis. The presence of a close social partner can reduce the …

Cooperatively-breeding and socially-monogamous primates, like marmosets and humans,
exhibit high levels of social tolerance and prosociality toward others. Oxytocin (OXT) …

Oxytocin (OT) and vasopressin (AVP) are important hypothalamic neuropeptides that
regulate peripheral physiology, and have emerged as important modulators of brain …

In highly social species, like primates, oxytocin plays an important role in cooperation, and in
the formation and maintenance of social relationships. Despite recent interest in the …