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NEUROENDOCRINE PERSPECTIVES ON SOCIAL ATTACHMENT AND LOVE
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The purpose of this paper is to review existing behavioral and neuroendocrine perspectives on social attachment and love. Both love and social attachments function to facilitate reproduction, provide a sense of safety, and reduce anxiety or stress. Because social attachment is an essential component of love, understanding attachment formation is an important step toward identifying the neurobiological substrates of love. Studies of pair bonding in monogamous rodents, such as prairie voles, and maternal attachment in precocial ungulates offer the most accessible animal models for the study of mechanisms underlying selective social attachments and the propensity to develop social bonds. Parental behavior and sexual behavior, even in the absence of selective social behaviors, are associated with the concept of love; the analysis of reproductive behaviors, which is far more extensive than our understanding of social attachment, also suggests neuroendocrine substrates for love. A review of these literatures reveals a recurrent association between high levels of activity in the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal (HPA) axis and the subsequent expression of social behaviors and attachments. Positive social behaviors, including social bonds, may reduce HPA axis activity, while in some cases negative social interactions can have the opposite effect. Central neuropeptides, and especially oxytocin and vasopressin have been implicated both in social bonding and in the central control of the HPA axis. In prairie voles, which show clear evidence of pair bonds, oxytocin is capable of increasing positive social behaviors and both oxytocin and social interactions reduce activity in the HPA axis. Social interactions and attachment involve endocrine systems capable of decreasing HPA reactivity and modulating the autonomic nervous system, perhaps accounting for health benefits that are attributed to loving relationships.
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“Animal model research points to a strong relationship between socially monogamous attachment behaviors and the expression of oxytocin within the brain—along with that of an affiliated peptide, vasopressin, and a suite of auxiliary hormones and neurotransmitters including dopamine.”
From Could intranasal oxytocin be used to enhance relationships? Research imperatives, clinical policy, and ethical considerations (2013) · cites this paper as [35]
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“Notably, anatomical investigations into the mating patterns of two closely-related species of vole—the monogamous prairie vole (Microtus ochrogaster) and the polygamous montane vole (Microtus montanus)—suggest that their dissimilar bonding strategies may turn upon systematic differences in the distribution of oxytocin and vasopressin receptor neurons in their brains [35].”
From Could intranasal oxytocin be used to enhance relationships? Research imperatives, clinical policy, and ethical considerations (2013) · cites this paper as [35]
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“OT is a nonapeptide hormone associated with affiliative bonding in mammals (Insel et al., 1997) that is known to mediate social behavior, pair-bonding, and parental attachment across a variety of species (Carter, 1998).”
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“The current findings lend some support to evolutionary models suggesting that parental and romantic attachment share some underlying mechanisms and are mediated by the oxytocinergic system (Carter, 1998; Feldman, in press).”
From Oxytocin during the initial stages of romantic attachment: Relations to couples’ interactive reciprocity (2012) · cites this paper as Carter, 1998
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“positive effects are likely mediated by increased secretion of the neuropeptide oxytocin [6,[16], [17], [18], [19]].”
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“In humans, parenting effort is promoted by long-term bonding between romantic partners, which in turn is mediated by many of the same neurobiological mechanisms underlying parent-child attachment (Carter, 1998; Lancaster and Kaplan, 2009; Pedersen et al., 2005)”
From The Adaptive Calibration Model of stress responsivity (2011) · cites this paper as Carter, 1998
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“Research has repeatedly implicated the neuropeptide oxytocin (OT) as one of the key hormones involved in parent-infant bonding in mammals, as well as in a range of social and affiliative behaviors (3–7).”
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“Several studies in human mothers have shown that peripheral OT release during birth, breastfeeding, and skin-to-skin contact between mothers and newborns is related to higher maternal responsiveness, lower maternal stress, and more optimal motherinfant bond (3,26).”
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“The natural establishment of pairbonds in prairie voles is usually accompanied by extensive sexual behavior over one to two days (Carter 1998) which also induces ovulation in females.”
From Variation in oxytocin is related to variation in affiliative behavior in monogamous, pairbonded tamarins (2010) · cites this paper as Carter 1998
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“Such overarching involvement of OT in social and affiliative processes is thought to stem from the hormone's central involvement in the formation of the parent-infant bond, which, in turn, enhances physiological and behavioral systems that underpin human social engagement throughout life (3,26,27).”
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“The neuropeptide oxytocin plays a central role in attachment formation, affiliation and social behavior (Carter, 1998).”
From Oxytocin effects on complex brain networks are moderated by experiences of maternal love withdrawal (2013) · cites this paper as Carter, 1998
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“Taken together, these findings suggest that OT may facilitate social interactions by lowering social vigilance and reducing social stress (Carter, 1998; Chang et al., 2013b; Ebitz et al., 2013; Neumann et al., 2000b; Uvnäs-Moberg et al., 1994).”
From Oxytocin and social cognition in rhesus macaques: Implications for understanding and treating human psychopathology (2014) · cites this paper as Carter, 1998
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“Adult sociosexual bonds in socially monogamous species function not only to facilitate reproduction, but to also reduce potentially deleterious health outcomes due to stress/anxiety (Carter, 1998).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Sue Carter, C.
- Venue
- Psychoneuroendocrinology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1998-11
- Volume
- 23
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 779-818
- ISSN
- 0306-4530 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2171095353
- Cited by
- 1,425
- References
- 203
- Citations by year
- 2026: 14 · 2025: 38 · 2024: 34 · 2023: 42 · 2022: 29 · 2021: 44 · 2020: 56 · 2019: 48 · 2018: 45 · 2017: 103 · 2016: 70 · 2015: 85 · 2014: 76 · 2013: 82 · 2012: 82
- FWCI
- 32.58
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Psychoneuroendocrinology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Endocrine and Autonomic Systems › Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Behavioral Neuroscience › Stress Responses and Cortisol
- Keywords
- social attachment, love, neuroendocrinology, pair bonding, Microtus ochrogaster, maternal attachment, hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, oxytocin, vasopressin, social bonding, reproductive behavior, autonomic nervous system, stress reduction, monogamy
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Child, Biological Evolution, Female, Humans, Hypothalamo-Hypophyseal System, Love, Male, Neurosecretory Systems, Object Attachment, Pair Bond, Parent-Child Relations, Pituitary-Adrenal System, Sexual Behavior, Social Behavior
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