Hugging for 20 seconds releases oxytocin, which can cause you to trust someone more — Ritzy Copy Share Image
“…Love is physiologically a legal battle that lovers fight until death.” — Farooq A. Shiekh Copy Share Image
“When we make a positive social connection, the pleasure-inducing hormone oxytocin is released into our bloodstream, immediately reducing anxiety and improving concentration… — Shawn Achor Copy Share Image
“Physical touch is hugely important to our wellbeing. Cuddling releases oxytocin, the “happy hormone,” which can help reduce stress and even boost… — S.J. Scott Copy Share Image
Like the oxytocin you get as a mom makes you forget everything constantly. And I'm a totally different person after having a… — Larkin Grimm Copy Share Image
Naturally, things are more complicated - those groovy, pro-social effects of oxytocin apply to how we interact with in-group members. — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
That's what falling in love really amounted to, your brain on drugs. Adrenaline and dopamine, oxytocin and serotonin. Chemical insanity, celebrated by… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
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… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“women with variants of genes that produce higher levels of oxytocin or oxytocin receptors average higher levels of touching their infants and… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“So oxytocin is central to female mammals nursing, wanting to nurse their child, and remembering which one is their child.” — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Showing kindness causes oxytocin release in the recipient that motives him or her to be kind to others. You can start this… — Paul J. Zak Copy Share Image
“For starters, circulating oxytocin levels are elevated in couples when they’ve first hooked up. Furthermore, the higher the levels, the more physical… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“If you have low levels of the pituitary peptide oxytocin—sometimes called the master chemical of sociability—and high quantities of the hormone vasopressin,… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
“Oxytocin is an ancient neurotransmitter chemical. Animal lineages much older than the mammals—amphibians, reptiles, worms, even the egg-dumping fish—all sport some version… — Hannah Holmes Copy Share Image
“The newly minted maternal heart, it completely melted into mush, the oxytocin I know now, had kicked in, and how. I would… — Kiran Manral Copy Share Image
“In search for love, where love is some Oxytocin,seeking happiness related to Orexin. Sensations of glory, motivation and success, They are all… — Omar EL KADMIRI Copy Share Image
“A dog can be a ‘significant other’ as it infuses a magic fluid stream of oxytocin, trust, ease, and patience; and transforms… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
In fact if you're a mother or a father, you're filled with oxytocin when you have a child. It makes you love… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
“Moreover, Neumann believes the primary function of oxytocin is to protect the brain from the hormonal havoc caused by birth and parenting.… — Hannah Holmes Copy Share Image
“Oxytocin, a hormone and neuropeptide ... plays a major role in attachment processes and serves several purposes: It causes women to go… — Amir Levine Copy Share Image
“When the time is taken to build proper relationships and when leaders choose to put their people before their numbers, when we… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
“Obviously, oxytocin and vasopressin are the grooviest hormones in the universe. Pour them into the water supply, and people will be more… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Each of our cells is a living entity, and the main thing that influences them is our blood. If I open my… — Bruce H. Lipton Copy Share Image
Male love circuits get an extra kick when stress levels are high. After an intense physical challenge, for instance, males will bond… — Louann Brizendine Copy Share Image
“I was in the ecstasy of babies then. I was on a long, oxytocin high. Noone told me about this. Noone told… — Peggy O'Mara Copy Share Image
“there are studies showing that one oxytocin receptor gene variant is associated with extreme aggression in kids, as well as a callous,… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Oxytocin infusion increases generosity in unilateral monetary transfers by 80 percent [and] increases donations to charity by 50 percent. — Paul J. Zak Copy Share Image
When you massage someone, the levels of oxytocin go up in the brain, and oxytocin is one of the chemicals that drives… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Oxytocin connects us to other people; oxytocin makes us feel what other people feel. And it's easy to cause people's brains to… — Paul J. Zak Copy Share Image
Oxytocin is the hormone of love. We share it when we have a good conversation, we share it when we make love,… — Robin Lim Copy Share Image
“They say that if you hug a person for at least twenty seconds you both release the calming and friendship-making hormone oxytocin.” — Christine DeSmet Copy Share Image
It turns out that we literally don't empathize unless we're physically present - that the oxytocin, the famous "tend and befriend" hormone… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Of course, if 40% of women need oxytocin to progress normally, then something is wrong with the definition of normal. — Henci Goer Copy Share Image
Oxytocin is lauded for how it promotes warmth, generosity, social bonding, cooperation, trust, and compassion. — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
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