Oxytocin makes inexperienced men more selective in their dating strategy

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Oxytocin makes a face in memory familiar.

Social recognition is the basis of all social interactions. Here, we show that, in humans, the evolutionarily highly conserved neuropeptide oxytocin, after intranasal administration, specifically improves recognition memory for faces, but not for nonsocial stimuli. With increased oxytocin levels, previously presented faces were more correctly assessed as "known," whereas the ability of recollec...

Europe's men need their own health strategy.

1Centre for Men’s Health, Institute for Health and Wellbeing, Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds LS2 8NU, UK; 2London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK; 3Centre for Men’s Health, Institute of Technology Carlow, Carlow, Ireland; 4School of Psychology, University of Sussex, Falmer, UK; 5Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Cope...

Oxytocin makes people trusting, not gullible.

Oxytocin makes us trusting but not gullible

Originally known for its role in childbirth and lactation, oxytocin (OT) has recently proved to play a key role in social behavior. Deprived of OT, humans are unable to recognize 1,2 and to bond 3 to their peers. Inversely, once boosted with OT, people become more caring 4 , trusting 5,6,7 and generous 8. Effect-sizes on trust and generosity were sufficiently large that OT started to be perceiv...