In fact, a role of oxytocin for delaying gratification and reversal learning could potentially explain several of the observed oxytocin effects on non-social behavior: beneficial oxytocin effects on addiction or over-eating may relate to improved delay of gratification, while deficits in re-learning of dysfunctional cue-outcome associations are a hallmark of the negative symptoms in schizophrenia (Bowen and Neumann, 2017; Reddy et al., 2016; Waltz and Gold, 2007). Here, OXT is linked to schizophrenia.