In experiments, 24 healthy men took nasal sprays containing oxytocin while 24 others received a placebo.
Afterwards the guinea pigs were shown ’emotionally loaded’ photographs including a crying child, a young girl embracing a cat and a man in mourning…
‘The oxytocin group showed significantly higher emotional empathy levels than those men who had taken the placebo,’ said Dr. René Hurlemann in Bonn.
He said they reached the ‘levels of sensitivity usually found in females.’
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