Saturday, January 15, 2011

Oxytocin fosters ethnic bonding as well?

Bede, in Are we hardwired to be ethnocentric?, comments on the NYT article on the research behind this paper: "Oxytocin promotes human ethnocentrism.

Natural affection can be supplemented by something more abstract, but engineering a political community in which natural effection is completely replaced by an abstract, natural benevolence may be impossible.

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