Friday, November 16, 2012

Drug Stops Men From Cheating? (VIDEO)










"A study published Tuesday in the Journal of Neuroscience has uncovered a surprising new property of oxytocin, finding that when men in monogamous relationships got a sniff of the stuff, they subsequently put a little extra space between themselves and an attractive woman they'd just met.

Oxytocin didn't have the same effect on single heterosexual men, who comfortably parked themselves between 21 and 24 inches from the comely female stranger. The men who declared themselves in "stable, monogamous" relationships and got a dose of the hormone chose to stand, on average, about 6 1/2 inches farther away.

When researchers conducted the experiment with a placebo, they found no differences in the distance that attached and unattached men maintained from a woman they had just met."*

Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss whether or not a hormone could really make a man stay faithful. Could oxytocin really make that much of a difference in a relationship? What would happen if it made it to the market?




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