I will admit that I don't know as though I have the answers to all this, and a lot of my pontifications are probably built in large parts around motivated reasoning & :brainworms:.

Even so, I think that there's a potentiality that what you're saying about the simple fact of being more socially connected causing you to be more pro-social in how you engage with others, and what I'm saying about how the way we think about ourselves as persons could effect our willingness to even engage with others on a social basis; I think that in some ways there's a potentiality that these could be mutually reinforcing phenomena.

Admittedly I don't want to overcommit to anything though, unless it ends up being wrong.