Proximate Mechanisms Regulating Sociality and Social Monogamy, in the Context of Evolution

Carter, C. Sue; Cushing, Bruce S.

doi:10.4324/9781315133676-8

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“…Simultaneously, these hormones regulate prosocial behaviours by increasing social cognition and pair bonding [37]. In combination, these behavioural changes are critical for both the development of mate bonds and parenting bonds [37,38] and are mediated via several processes: OT and VT directly affect visual, auditory, and olfactory inputs, and interact with serotonergic systems in the nucleus accumbens, that in turn facilitate social learning and social recognition [39]. These mechanisms support social trust by increasing social attention and promoting behavioural synchronization [37,40].…”

Section: The Role Of Touch In Bond Formation and Maintenancementioning

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The power of touch: from survival to enduring, prosocial cooperation

Griesser,

Bennett,

Burkart

et al. 2024

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Cooperation is a pivotal biological phenomenon that occurs in many forms. In species that engage in helping, individuals vary in association time and the extent of physical proximity, influencing the extent of touching between individuals. Here, we emphasize the importance of touch in the development and maintenance of parenting and mate bonds, and its link to cooperation. Touch activates a feedback loop via social hormones that supports bonds in general. Notably, extended parenting is crucial for the emergence of enduring bonds and the development of the mindset that supports investments which result in delayed benefits. We integrate these ideas in the ‘caring-touch’ hypothesis, highlighting the role of touch and enduring bonds in the evolution of different forms of cooperation.

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Section: The Role Of Touch In Bond Formation and Maintenancementioning

confidence: 99%

The power of touch: from survival to enduring, prosocial cooperation

Griesser,

Bennett,

Burkart

et al. 2024

Preprint

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“…Because play is likely to be shared primarily with close others (or those with whom one would like to develop greater intimacy), hormones associated with affectional bonding are likely to be released during play. Oxytocin and vasopressin, hormones that are thought to play important roles in the formation of attachment bonds (Bartz & Hollander, 2006; Carter, 1998; Carter & Cushing, 2004; Lim & Young, 2006) and intimate forms of social behaviors among animals (DeVries, DeVries, Taymans, & Carter, 1996; Keverne & Kendrick, 1992; Williams, Catania, & Carter, 1992; Winslow, Hastings, Carter, Harbaugh, & Insel, 1993), may be released during play. In support of this claim, recent work has implicated release of oxytocin in fathers’ play with their children (Gordon, Zagoory-Sharon, Leckman, & Feldman, 2010; Naber, van IJzendoorn, Deschamps, van Engeland, & Bakermans-Kranenburg, 2010).…”

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Young at Heart

Vleet

Feeney

2015

Perspect Psychol Sci

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Developmental and animal research has established play as important to well-being, yet little is known about implications of play by human adults, particularly within close relationships, where it is most likely to occur. Although this is an important emerging topic for psychology, several obstacles have impeded research in this area, including definitional issues and the lack of a guiding framework. In this article, we direct attention to this neglected research area and propose a perspective on play in adulthood that provides a definition of the construct (a behavior or activity that is carried out with the goal of amusement and fun, involves an enthusiastic and in-the-moment attitude or approach, and is highly interactive among play partners or with the activity itself) and identifies potential immediate outcomes (e.g., positive affect, feelings of being accepted and valued, reductions in daily stress) and long-term outcomes (e.g., psychological, physical, and relational health) of play in adulthood, with an emphasis on play occurring within the context of close relationships. In doing so, we elucidate important avenues for future research on this topic (e.g., development of standardized measures, examination of biological mechanisms), which is ripe for investigation.

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“…It is therefore possible that similar patterns of neurochemical signalling within and among brain regions have been repeatedly recruited to facilitate social variation across different contexts. Nevertheless, sexual dimorphism in neural mechanisms of social variation may occur, due to sex differences in behavioural features of sociality and sex steroid hormones [12,13]. Sex differences may also arise from differences in pre-existing molecular and neural frameworks available for co-option during the development and/ or evolution of sociality [13].…”

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Gene expression correlates of social evolution in coral reef butterflyfishes

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Animals display remarkable variation in social behaviour. However, outside of rodents, little is known about the neural mechanisms of social variation, and whether they are shared across species and sexes, limiting our understanding of how sociality evolves. Using coral reef butterflyfishes, we examined gene expression correlates of social variation (i.e. pair bonding versus solitary living) within and between species and sexes. In several brain regions, we quantified gene expression of receptors important for social variation in mammals: oxytocin ( OTR ), arginine vasopressin ( V1aR ), dopamine ( D1R, D2R ) and mu-opioid ( MOR ). We found that social variation across individuals of the oval butterflyfish, Chaetodon lunulatus, is linked to differences in OTR , V1aR, D1R, D2R and MOR gene expression within several forebrain regions in a sexually dimorphic manner. However, this contrasted with social variation among six species representing a single evolutionary transition from pair-bonded to solitary living. Here, OTR expression within the supracommissural part of the ventral telencephalon was higher in pair-bonded than solitary species, specifically in males. These results contribute to the emerging idea that nonapeptide, dopamine and opioid signalling is a central theme to the evolution of sociality across individuals, although the precise mechanism may be flexible across sexes and species.

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Proximate Mechanisms Regulating Sociality and Social Monogamy, in the Context of Evolution

Cited by 4 publications

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The power of touch: from survival to enduring, prosocial cooperation

The power of touch: from survival to enduring, prosocial cooperation

Young at Heart

Gene expression correlates of social evolution in coral reef butterflyfishes

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