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Oxytocin infusion increases generosity in unilateral monetary transfers by 80 percent [and] increases donations to charity by 50 percent. -- Paul J. Zak
Oxytocin connects us to other people; oxytocin makes us feel what other people feel. And it's easy to cause people's brains to release oxytocin. Let me show you. Come here. Give me a hug. -- Paul J. Zak
Oxytocin is the hormone of love. We share it when we have a good conversation, we share it when we make love, and when we hug, and BIRTH is the biggest brightest time of rich oxytocin-sharing. -- Robin Lim
Oxytocin rocks the world. -- Robin Lim
Oxytocin is a Teflon hormone - bad news rolls off it. -- Robert M. Sapolsky
As a midwife, I am immersed in Oxytocin day and night. -- Robin Lim
Oxytocin is lauded for how it promotes warmth, generosity, social bonding, cooperation, trust, and compassion. -- Robert M. Sapolsky
In search for love, where love is some Oxytocin,seeking happiness related to Orexin. Sensations of glory, motivation and success, They are all some precious chemicals. Our mind is greedy, and falls into depression when he is no longer satisfied. LIFE IS A DRUG STORE WE ARE ALL JUNKIES. -- Omar EL KADMIRI
Of course, if 40% of women need oxytocin to progress normally, then something is wrong with the definition of normal. -- Henci Goer
That's what falling in love really amounted to, your brain on drugs. Adrenaline and dopamine, oxytocin and serotonin. Chemical insanity, celebrated by poets. -- Tess Gerritsen
When you massage someone, the levels of oxytocin go up in the brain, and oxytocin is one of the chemicals that drives attachment. -- Helen Fisher
When dogs and humans make eye contact, that actually releases what's known as the love hormone, oxytocin, in both the dog and the human. -- Brian Hare
In fact if you're a mother or a father, you're filled with oxytocin when you have a child. It makes you love the baby, even though they look like a lizard .You'll think it's the beautiful thing in the world. -- Tony Robbins
Showing kindness causes oxytocin release in the recipient that motives him or her to be kind to others. You can start this virtuous cycle in the simplest ways, for example, by giving someone a hug. I send you a hug! -- Paul J. Zak
Naturally, things are more complicated - those groovy, pro-social effects of oxytocin apply to how we interact with in-group members. -- Robert M. Sapolsky
Give lab rats oxytocin and, according to that meme, they get better at talking about their feelings and sing like Joan Baez. -- Robert M. Sapolsky
Like the oxytocin you get as a mom makes you forget everything constantly. And I'm a totally different person after having a kid. -- Larkin Grimm
To out-group-members, oxytocin makes you crappier - less cooperative and more preemptively aggressive. It's not the luv hormone. It's the in-group parochialism/xenophobia hormone. -- Robert M. Sapolsky
It turns out that we literally don't empathize unless we're physically present - that the oxytocin, the famous "tend and befriend" hormone is not produced unless we're present with all five senses. -- Gloria Steinem
Women take fewer financial risks than men do, but not because we're wusses. Both sexes secrete the hormone oxytocin in stressful situations, but women secrete more of it, which helps us stay calmer. -- Jean Chatzky

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