Oxytocin Spray Makes Men More Sympathetic of Others
A further scientific study apparently confirms the remarkable properties of oxytocin spray – a squirt of oxytocin appears to make men more empathetic and able to sympathise with the emotions of others. These traits are of course, generally deficient in those suffering from autism. They are also popularly supposed to be more present in women than men.
Researchers showed soppy photographs to a group of men either given oxytocin nasal spray or a placebo. Those given the oxytocin spray reacted with more emotional empathy than the placebo group.
“The males under test achieved levels [of emotion] which would normally only be expected in women,” says a statement from Bonn University, indicating that they had cooed or even blubbed at the sight of the affecting images.
