This model suggests that diverse and contextually dependent effects on social behavior reflect OT’s influence on dopaminergic and serotonergic brain circuitry across multiple functional domains, spanning anxiety, reward sensitivity, and attribution of social salience (Churchland and Winkielman, 2012; Dölen et al., 2013; Skuse and Gallagher, 2009; Ellenbogen, 2018). This evidence concerns the gene OXT and Anxiety.