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Oxytocin, known as the "love hormone," is key in emotions such as attraction, trust, and bonding. It helps with labor contractions, milk production during breastfeeding, and sexual arousal.

Oxytocin is known as the "cuddle hormone," but that simplistic moniker glosses over the complex role this hormone plays in social interactions and bonding. Skip to main content.

With the added edge of oxytocin, they could "tip the balances a little," says Larry Young, a researcher who studies the hormone at Emory University near Atlanta.

Oxytocin is a hormone that acts as a neurotransmitter and plays an important role in reproduction. It's also linked to a host of relationship-enhancing effects, solidifying its status as the "love ...

Oxytocin is a real hormone, a neuropeptide, that has been shown to influence behavior across the animal kingdom, particularly in mammals, and particularly in social mammals.

Maybe oxytocin can attach to more than one hormone receptor—something that studies have hinted at over the years, Carter told me. But some researchers, Young among them, suspect a more radical ...

Since the hormone oxytocin makes people more social, it's easy to imagine it might cause the social deficits of autism. But a study found children with autism no more likely to be short of oxytocin.