Triki, Zegni and Daughters, Katie and De Dreu, Carsten (2022) Oxytocin has ‘Tend-and-Defend’ Functionality in Group Conflict Across Social Vertebrates. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 377 (1851). 20210137-. DOI https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0137
Triki, Zegni and Daughters, Katie and De Dreu, Carsten (2022) Oxytocin has ‘Tend-and-Defend’ Functionality in Group Conflict Across Social Vertebrates. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 377 (1851). 20210137-. DOI https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0137
Triki, Zegni and Daughters, Katie and De Dreu, Carsten (2022) Oxytocin has ‘Tend-and-Defend’ Functionality in Group Conflict Across Social Vertebrates. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 377 (1851). 20210137-. DOI https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0137
Abstract
Across vertebrate species, intergroup conflict confronts individuals with a tension between group interests best served by participation in conflict and personal interest best served by not participating. Here, we identify the neurohormone oxytocin as pivotal to the neurobiological regulation of this tension in distinctly different group-living vertebrates, including fish, birds, rodents, non-human primates, and humans. In the context of intergroup conflict, a review of emerging work on pro-sociality suggests that oxytocin and its fish and birds homologs, isotocin and mesotocin, respectively, can elicit participation in group conflict and aggression. This is because it amplifies (i) concern for the interests of genetically related or culturally similar ‘in- group’ others, and (ii) willingness to defend against outside intruders and enemy conspecifics. Across a range of social vertebrates, oxytocin can induce aggressive behaviour to ‘tend-and- defend’ the in-group during intergroup contests.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Parochial Altruism; In-group; Out-group; Neuromodulation; Decision-making; Vertebrates |
Divisions: | Faculty of Science and Health Faculty of Science and Health > Psychology, Department of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 13 Dec 2021 14:39 |
Last Modified: | 30 Oct 2024 19:32 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/31885 |
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