03-27-2007, 08:54 PM
New Scientist Wrote:
The trust hormone,it seems,is also the mind-reading hormone.a sniff of oxytocin,which underpins social attachment among animals,also turns out to improve men's ability to read other people emotions.
Two years ago,researchers reported that oxytocin increases trust(New Scientist,4 June 2005,p 7).now a team led by George Domes at Rostock university in Germany has investigated one of the basic components of trust:emotional recognition
The researcher sprayed oxytocin up the noses of 30 men and tested how well the could read the emotions conveyed by photographs of eyes taken in real-life situations. Twenty of them performed significantly better on the test after sniffing the hormone(biological psychiatry,vol 61,p 7310.Domes suggest that oxytocin could be investigated as a treatment for people with autism,who struggle to read the emotions of others
Two years ago,researchers reported that oxytocin increases trust(New Scientist,4 June 2005,p 7).now a team led by George Domes at Rostock university in Germany has investigated one of the basic components of trust:emotional recognition
The researcher sprayed oxytocin up the noses of 30 men and tested how well the could read the emotions conveyed by photographs of eyes taken in real-life situations. Twenty of them performed significantly better on the test after sniffing the hormone(biological psychiatry,vol 61,p 7310.Domes suggest that oxytocin could be investigated as a treatment for people with autism,who struggle to read the emotions of others