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Don't trust anyone? Perhaps you lack oxytocin Hormone may be the key to confidence
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Benedict Carey
International Herald Tribune
06-03-2005
In a finding that may someday benefit the socially manipulative as well as the socially awkward, Swiss researchers are reporting that doses of a natural hormone significantly increased the level of trust that people placed in strangers who were handling their money. Scientists have long known that the hormone used in the study oxytocin, which circulates widely in the body during childbirth and lactation prompts warm relations and mating in other mammals. But they say the Swiss study, which appears in the Thursday issue of the journal ...
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