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If evolution chanced upon a way to bind people together into large groups, the most obvious glue is oxytocin, a hormone and neurotransmitter produced by the hypothalamus. Oxytocin is widely used among vertebrates to prepare females for motherhood. In mammals it causes uterine contractions and milk letdown, as well as a powerful motivation to touch

Core Drive 5: Social Influence & Relatedness is a Right Brain Core Drive that bases its success off our desires to connect and compare with one another.

Competition serves the ego. Cooperation supports the highest outcome.

Now comes the interesting part: the scientists noticed that there was a lot of individual variation during the experiment. Some people had very active sympathetic brains, while others seemed rather uninterested in thinking about the feelings of someone else. The scientists then conducted a survey of altruistic behavior, asking people how likely the

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And you would devote 130 minutes (a bit more than two hours, or a whole evening every other month) to each of the ten additional sympathy-group members.

There are two basic answers to that question: either I owe you a favor, or I want you to owe me one. And if either of those things are true of enough individuals, a whole group can enter a state called “reciprocal altruism.”

d’un point de vue évolutionniste, aussi longtemps que l’être humain aura l’opportunité de se reproduire, investir dans son bien-être personnel et dans sa propre descendance rapportera toujours davantage qu’un investissement pour le groupe. Donc, à long terme, les traits égoïstes se répandront aux dépens des traits altruistes. Même lors des guerres