The “love hormone” oxytocin may help maintain romantic relationships by prompting men to keep their distance from attractive women, a new study from Germany suggests.
In the study, men in monogamous relationships who were given an oxytocinnasal spray stayed about four to six inches farther away from an attractive, woman they didn’t know, compared with men in monogamous relationships who received a placebo.
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The report, What Drives the Gender Gap in Charitable Giving? Lower Empathy Leads Men to Give Less to Poverty Relief (45 pages, PDF), found that, compared with women, men reported less willingness to give either time or money to a hypothetical poverty-r…
How Compassion-Focused Therapy can help you with eating disorders, social anxiety, and other mental health challenges.by Paul Gilbert, Ph.D., Ken Goss, Psy.D., Lynne Henderson, Ph.D., and Dennis Tirch, Ph.D Welcome to the first post in our blog …
A light rape sentence sparks outrage—and raises questions about the place of empathy and bias in judicial decision-making. In 2009, President Obama told Americans that he thought empathy was an important quality for a judge to possess, …
