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And so if people are touching or people are engaging in the sorts of behaviors that I mentioned earlier, that can increase oxytocin further, that's going to further increase the depth of the bond. But the point here is that there's actually a hormonal glue between individuals, okay, infant and mother, friends, teammates, romantic partners, and so on. And that hormonal glue is oxytocin.
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so oxytocin turns up behavioral synchrony and one of the things this is like something I've been fascinated in for the last decade and we and a lot of other people have been working on is that this synchrony at the behavioral and neural level physiological synchrony uh is kind of it's this black magic of of social behavior it's the glue that um allows us to live and work together
oxytocin both seems to increase that synchrony and increase the awareness for the emotional state of others