Oxytocin promotes human ethnocentrism

By C. D. De Dreu, Lindred L. Greer, Gerben A. van Kleef, Shaul Shalvi, Michel J. J. Handgraaf. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2011

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Feeling like a state: social emotion and identity (2014, result): “The authors found that the effect of in-group favoritism across the experiments was ‘strikingly similar’, which suggested to them that cultural norms and other between-group differences were unimportant (De Dreu et al. 2011, 1264).”
We are human, they are not: Driving forces behind outgroup dehumanisation and the humanisation of the ingroup (2012, background): “Oxytocin is a neuropeptide that promotes trust, empathy, and cooperation, but according to De Dreu et al. (2011) only among individuals belonging to one’s ingroup.”
The Social Salience Hypothesis of Oxytocin. (2016, neutral): “Support for this account comes from studies demonstrating a role for OT in regulating parochial altruism (12), ethnocentrism and increase in-ingroup preference (61), in-group conformity (62), as well as”
Synchrony as an Adaptive Mechanism for Large-Scale Human Social Bonding (2016, neutral): “More recently, the administration of oxytocin in humans has been shown to have positive effects towards both one’s own in-group (e.g. De Dreu et al. 2011) and out-groups (Shamay-Tsoory et al. 2013), with individual differences predicting some of this variability in behaviour (Ma et al. 2015) This…”
The neural pathways, development and functions of empathy (2015, result): “However, other studies have shown that oxytocin promotes group bias by motivating in-group favoritism [19].”
The role of oxytocin in social bonding, stress regulation and mental health: an update on the moderating effects of context and interindividual differences. (2013, background): “…participants interacted with strangers compared to familiar persons (Declerck et al., 2010) or out-group members compared to in-group members (De Dreu et al., 2011), although a recent meta-analysis could not confirm that intranasal oxytocin significantly decreases out-group trust (van…”
Understanding Polarization: Meanings, Measures, and Model Evaluation (2017, result): “That such a mechanism alone can produce divergence does accord with some recent empirical research that indicates that in-group members can be drawn together without any demonstrable psychological out-group repulsion (Bicchieri 2006; Dreu et al. 2010, 2011).”
Neural Basis of Learning and Preference during Social Decision Making (2012, background): “Moreover, whether and how much the decision maker cares about the reward given to others is affected by a variety of neural and social factors [1-3].”