OXT and Anxiety: Studies using zebrafish and rodents as animal models have shown that oxytocin boosts social learning, induces consolation behavior, increases preferences for conspecifics, regulates recognition of new events, and is implicated in the emotional contagion of fear and in reduction of stress and anxiety responses during social interactions (Burkett et al. 2016; Johnson et al. 2017; Li et al. 2019; Landin et al. 2020; Ribeiro, Nunes, Gliksberg, et al. 2020; Akinrinade, Kareklas, et al.