“Subsequent to these findings, we assume that the hormone is an overall trigger for social sentiments: when the person's association is positive, oxytocin bolsters pro-social behaviors; when the association is negative, the hormone increases negative sentiments,” UH expert Simone Shamay-Tsoory, who was the leader of the new research. Details of the recent scientific investigation were published in the latest issue of the respected scientific journal Biological Psychiatry, AlphaGalileo reports.
The investigation comes on the heels of different studies, which have shown the positive effects that the hormone has on positive states of mind and behaviors. In natural instances, the chemical is released in larger quantities when women go through childbirth, or during intercourse. In the new study, which involved 56 participants, some of them were made to inhale a chemical containing oxytocin, and all of them became more altruistic to each other. Therefore, the team hypothesizes, it may be that, evolutionarily speaking, the chemical plays a crucial role in helping us get more friends.
“Following the earlier results of experiments with oxytocin, we began to examine the possible use of the hormone as a medication for various disorders, such as autism. The results of the present study show that the hormone's undesirable effects on behavior must be examined before moving ahead,” Shamay-Tsoory adds of the research. She adds that other batches of studies demonstrated that aggressive rats that were given oxytocin became even more so, suggesting new obstacles in the path of using the chemical to do good.
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