Inquire
A first-pass identification check on the curated graph. Not a full do-calculus engine. The URL is the citation: share the query, not a vibe.
Smoke
The observed link is labeled smoke: confounding, not a mechanism.
1 path of length ≤ 4 connect the two nodes. No shared ancestor was found in a depth-3 backdoor scan. This is a pedagogical first-pass, not a full application of Pearl's do-calculus. It reports what the curated graph can and cannot support.
- The trust-hormone slogan is a 2005 RCT that did not survive its own authors' registered replication.
- oxytocin → interpersonal-trust
Cite this page
What Causes What. “The observed link is labeled smoke: confounding, not a mechanism..” https://whatcauseswhat.org/inquire?from=oxytocin&to=interpersonal-trust (atlas updated 2026-08-31).
https://whatcauseswhat.org/inquire?from=oxytocin&to=interpersonal-trust