Oxytocin in sentence

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It's called oxytocin.

So I had this idea that oxytocin might be the moral molecule.

In other words, I thought I could design an experiment to see if oxytocin made people moral.

First of all, oxytocin is a shy molecule.

So this experiment would have to cause a surge of oxytocin, have to grab it fast and keep it cold.

Now luckily, oxytocin is produced both in the brain and in the blood, so I could do this experiment without learning neurosurgery.

But why? Well by measuring oxytocin we found that the more money the second person received, the more their brain produced oxytocin, and the more oxytocin on board, the more money they returned.

So we measured nine other molecules that interact with oxytocin, but they didn't have any effect.

But the second is that I still only had this indirect relationship between oxytocin and trustworthiness.

I didn't know for sure oxytocin caused trustworthiness.

So to make the experiment, I knew I'd have to go into the brain and manipulate oxytocin directly.

I used everything short of a drill to get oxytocin into my own brain.

Using the oxytocin inhaler, we ran more studies.

We showed that oxytocin infusion increases generosity in unilateral monetary transfers by 80 percent.

We've also investigated non-pharmacologic ways to raise oxytocin.

And whenever we raise oxytocin, people willingly open up their wallets and share money with strangers.

What does it feel like when your brain is flooded with oxytocin?

After they watched the video, we had them rate their feelings and took blood before and after to measure oxytocin.

The change in oxytocin predicted their feelings of empathy.

So who are these people who manipulate our oxytocin systems?

So if you trust them, their brains don't release oxytocin.

Also, high stress inhibits oxytocin.

We have oxytocin that connects us to others, makes us feel what they feel.

Weddings cause a release of oxytocin, but they do so in a very particular way.

She had the biggest increase in oxytocin.

I took my blood before and after, and I had a huge spike of oxytocin.

So we investigated the role of social media and found the using social media produced a solid double-digit increase in oxytocin.

And one of these guys, he must have been 22, he had 150 percent spike in oxytocin.

And they indeed also release oxytocin.

And it's so easy to cause people's brains to release oxytocin.

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