Andrew Huberman· PhD
A particularly interesting study about oxytocin is that, that was published in the journal, Neuroscience, which is a good journal, that oxytocin modulates social distance between males and females.
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A particularly interesting study about oxytocin is that, that was published in the journal, Neuroscience, which is a good journal, that oxytocin modulates social distance between males and females.
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What they did is they gave oxytocin to people that were in monogamous relationships, and then they evaluated the extent to which the, in this case, the males in those relationships would pay attention to visual attention to attractive other potential partners. And it seemed like that the general takeaway from this study is that oxytocin administration seemed to promote monogamous behavior.