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jvkohl
12-02-2006, 07:55 PM
How might an oxytocin-enhanced "pheromone" product affect the behavior of others? Can it really be

expected to make them trust you? The abstract (URL below) indicates that oxytocin might work by influencing whether

or not you trust them. If so, it would be difficult to classify oxytocin as a pheromone (at least by any

classification that I might

apply).

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids

=17137561&query_hl=1&itool=pubmed_docsum

"Our data suggest that oxytocin improves the ability to infer

the mental state of others from social cues of the eye region."

JVK

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