{"id":548329,"date":"2010-04-30T16:52:48","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T20:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/?p=9090"},"modified":"2010-07-19T20:26:02","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T00:26:02","slug":"turn-a-man-into-mush-with-a-nasal-spray-of-pure-oxytocin-discoblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/548329","title":{"rendered":"Turn a Man Into Mush With a Nasal Spray of Pure Oxytocin | Discoblog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who ever thought that couples could bond over nasal spray? But new research shows that a nasal spray containing the &#8220;love hormone&#8221; oxytocin helped make regular guys more empathetic and less gruff. Oxytocin is the hormone that strengthens the bond between nursing moms and their babies, and it&#8217;s also involved in pair bonding, love, and sex. The spray was tested on a group of 48 healthy males&#8211;half received a spritz of the nose spray at the start of the experiment and the other half received a placebo. The researchers then showed their test subjects emotion-inducing photos like a bawling child, a girl hugging her cat, and a grieving man. Finally, they asked the guys to express how they felt. The placebo group men reacted normally to the soppy pictures; which is to say they were either mildly uncomfortable or stoic. Whereas the group that had used the nasal spray were markedly more empathetic. The Register reports:<br \/>\n&#8220;The males under test achieved levels [of emotion] which would normally only be expected in women,&#8221; says a statement from Bonn University, indicating that they had cooed or even blubbed at the sight of the affecting images.<br \/>\nThe study&#8217;s findings, published in The Journal of Neuroscience, suggest one &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/MnJtp4kSazFUGSO98bDH2TsLuqg\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/MnJtp4kSazFUGSO98bDH2TsLuqg\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/MnJtp4kSazFUGSO98bDH2TsLuqg\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/MnJtp4kSazFUGSO98bDH2TsLuqg\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/WO70zCrIfV0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who ever thought that couples could bond over nasal spray? But new research shows that a nasal spray containing the &#8220;love hormone&#8221; oxytocin helped make regular guys more empathetic and less gruff. Oxytocin is the hormone that strengthens the bond between nursing moms and their babies, and it&#8217;s also involved in pair bonding, love, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}