“…These behaviors have been described in different ways and using different terminologies. They include pair bonding, attachment, and social learning/memory, social salience and emotional empathy, recognition and interpretation of emotions, behavioral synchrony, familiarization and within group co-operation, altruism, generosity and trust, reward sensitivity, calmness and reduction of stress, and amelioration of anxiety (anxiolytic effects; e.g., Kosfeld et al, 2005 ; Baumgartner et al, 2008 ; Ditzen et al, 2009 ; Strathearn et al, 2009 ; Hurlemann et al, 2010 ; De Dreu, 2012 ; Fischer-Shofty et al, 2012 ; Tops et al, 2013 ; Bethlehem et al, 2014 ; Preckel et al, 2014 ; Shamay-Tsoory and Abu-Akel, 2016 ; Feldman, 2017 ; Fineberg and Ross, 2017 ; Leppanen et al, 2017 ; Wang et al, 2017 ; Ellenbogen, 2018 ; Geng et al, 2018 ; Jurek and Neumann, 2018 ; Rilling et al, 2018 ; Alos-Ferrer and Farolfi, 2019 ; Liu et al, 2019 ; Tillman et al, 2019 ; Sicorello et al, 2020 ; Wu et al, 2020 ). Analyses of the impact of oxytocin on neural activity imaged in the brains of healthy subjects generally reflect this, with altered activity in interconnected structures associated with valence, salience, trust, prosocial behavior and mentalizing, including the amygdala, insula, nucleus accumbens, lateral septum, anterior cingulate, hippocampus, caudate, tempero-parietal cortex, dorsomedial and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (e.g., Kirsch et al, 2005 ; Rilling and Sanfey, 2011 ; Bethlehem et al, 2013 ; Eckstein et al, 2017 ; Wang et al, 2017 ; Rilling et al, 2018 ; Kumar et al, 2020 ; Wu et al, 2020 ).…”