4 Hormone Modulation Layer · 4.4 Oxytocin and Continuity Stability
4.4 Oxytocin and Continuity Stability
Human Behavior FCA
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Oxytocin lowers social-threat sensitivity and supports continuity context in relationships.
This modulation can improve conditions for execution maintenance, but it is not ECN itself.
Its core effect is threshold reweighting under social-threat context.
Social-threat sensitivity.
Relationship continuity.
Trust-context stability.
Execution-maintenance probability.
DMN threat-template invocation frequency.
Observable Output → Foreground Entry → Historical Template Matching and Explanation → New Structure Generation → Execution Maintenance → Feedback Update.
Oxytocin modulation first reweights social-threat salience at foreground entry, then affects downstream execution stability.
When feedback update keeps confirming safe context, routing can shift from defensive repetition to stable update.
Interruption rate declines after relationship-relevant triggers.
Execution-maintenance duration increases with fewer fallback events.
Defensive bias toward social input weakens in the next cycle after feedback.
Do not write oxytocin as love itself.
Do not write oxytocin as ECN itself.
Do not use romanticized relationship narratives as mechanism description.