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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe Oxytocin has been dubbed the 'social hormone' for its ability to facilitate the formation of social bonds. However, it seems that

its role is more subtle and complex than that. Here, researchers gave men doses of oxytocin before introducing them to attractive females. Men who were in a monogamous relationship increased

the distance between themselves and the women if they had received oxytocin compared with similar men who had not received the hormone, whereas single men did not. However, the hormone had

no effect on the men's interactions with other men or on their judgements of attractiveness. Oxytocin might therefore promote faithfulness in monogamous relationships by preventing men

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Contact customer support ORIGINAL RESEARCH PAPER * Scheele, D. et al. Oxytocin modulates social distance between males and females. _J. Neurosci._ 32, 16074–16079 (2012) Article  CAS  Google

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ABOUT THIS ARTICLE CITE THIS ARTICLE Jones, R. Don't stand so close to me .... _Nat Rev Neurosci_ 14, 2 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrn3414 Download citation * Published: 05

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