Andrew Huberman· PhD
So if ever there was a hormone or hormone-like molecule that's associated with social bonding, it's oxytocin, and oxytocin has gotten a ton of interest in the popular press.
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So if ever there was a hormone or hormone-like molecule that's associated with social bonding, it's oxytocin, and oxytocin has gotten a ton of interest in the popular press.
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it activates neurons and is associated with neural networks related to pair bonding both between parent and child both mother and child and father and child or caretaker and child not just biological parent as well as bonding between friends bonding between lovers and it's thought to actually be involved in the process that is the painful process of breaking of bonds when people are no longer available to us as caretakers or as partners either by way of breakup death departure Etc
We hear that oxytocin is the chemical responsible for bonding between romantic partners. um bonding between mother and infant, maybe even bonding between friends, etc.
So, we've covered a lot about the biology and indeed the neural circuitry and neurochemistry and neuroendocrinology of social bonding. I want to make sure that I highlight the key features that go into any and all of your social bonds. First of all, all social bonds have the potential to include both what we called emotional empathy and cognitive empathy. And so if you are interested in establishing and deepening social bonds of any kind, it's important that you put some effort toward this thing that we call emotional empathy, which is really about sharing autonomic experience. Emotional empathy and the synchronization of autonomic function, heart rate, breathing, etc. can be best accomplished by paying attention to external events in particular narrative, story, music, perhaps sports or other types of experience as an external stimulus to drive synchrony of those internal states.