Oxytocin, Narcissism, and Psychopathy Articles

Oxytocin levels appear to be related to feelings of empathy or the lack thereof. If this is conclusive, then the absence of oxytocin is epidemic in certain populations.

• Medical News Today 09/07/2017: What is the link between love and oxytocin? 
• Psychology Today: What Is Oxytocin? 
• 09/27/2017: Oxytocin Ain't Behavin' How Scientists Thought It Would 
• Wikipedia: Oxytocin 
• HuffPost 08/07/2016: The Spellbinding Bond To Narcissists And Psychopaths – What's Happening In The Brain? 
• NCBI: "The role of oxytocin in psychiatric disorders: A review of biological and therapeutic research findings" 
• Science Daily 06/19/2013: Altered brain structure in pathological narcissism 
• PsychCentral 08/08/2018: Oxytocin Fuels Distinction of Self & Others 
• LiveScience 06/24/2013: Narcissists' Lack of Empathy Detected in Brain Scans 

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Self-Esteem Psychosis - Random Notes

Feelings of satisfaction can only be recognized by comparing past situations where satisfaction was experienced. Most memories of positive emotions come from early to prepubescent childhood.

 As our bodies change, our hormones and neurotransmitter chemicals change, sometimes in a way that lessens the salience of positive emotions in response to external stimuli. Some chemical changes are more extreme than others.

A psychosis of self-esteem comes from the distortion of values and judgments of the self compared to other people and cultural expectations, often leading to irrational violence.

• Social Comparison Theory
• Very well mind: Social Comparison Theory in Psychology. 
• Taylor & Francis Online: The relationship between self‐esteem and psychotic symptoms in schizophrenia: A longitudinal study 
• NCBI: Emotion and psychosis: links between depression, self-esteem, negative schematic beliefs and delusions and hallucinations. 

Social Dysphoria is not exclusively gender related

• Dysphoria is at one end of a spectrum, opposite to Euphoria. What elements do we use to determine the number of degrees of separation between the two, and how do we describe them?

If our cognitive biases causes one to accept arguments based on logical fallacies,