PS270 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Vasopressin
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Ancestors gained strength from numbers and bc group dwellers survived and reproduced, we carry genes that predispose us to form such bonds. Injections of hormones like oxytocin (released in females during nursing/mating) and vasopressin produce good feelings that trigger male female bonding. By keeping infants close to their caregivers, social attachment serves as a powerful survival impulse. Intense love of parent and infant for each other is also passionate love, engages brain areas akin to those of enabling passionate romantic love. Play comfortably in mother"s presence, distressed when she leaves, happy and relaxed again when she returns. As adults are trusting, easy to get close to others without fretting about being abandoned/getting too dependent. Avoidant infants reveal little distress during separation and don"t cling upon reunion. Adults avoid closeness, less invested in relationships, sex without love, fearful or dismissing. Cling to mother, cry when leaves, indifferent or hostile when she returns.
