Oxytocin: Hormone of Love… and of Mistrust?

Oxytocin is a neurohormone that is produced in the human brain and helps us form loving connections: mother-child bonds as well as the connections between romantic partners.  When we are with a person who stimulates our oxytocin-producing neurological system, we feel warmed, supported, in a word: loved.  However, making us feel loved doesn’t seem to be exactly the function of …