Scientists create 'trust potion'

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A key hormone helps determine whether we will trust lovers, friends or business contacts, scientists claim.

Exposure to an oxytocin "potion" led people to be more trusting, tests by University of Zurich researchers found.

They say in Nature the finding could help people with conditions such as autism, where relating to others can be a problem.

But one expert warned it could be misused by politicians who want to persuade more people to back them.

Oxytocin is a molecule produced naturally in the hypothalamus area of the brain which regulates a variety of physiological processes, including emotion.

It also acts on other brain regions whose function is associated with emotional and social behaviours, such as the amygdala.

And animal studies have shown oxytocin is linked to bonding between males and females and mother infant bonding.

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The Swiss team suspected the same effect may occur in humans.......

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From "Principia Discordia".

As "Sufi?s" holy text says: (original in Sanskrit).

"All affirmations are true in some sense, false in some sense, meaningful in some sense,true and false in some sense, true and meaningless in some sense, fal
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I am in the process of trying to get car insurance and they ran a credit check on me! Why they check a persons' credit for a service that you prepay for is beyond my comprehension. Why should my rates be higher or lower b/c of my credit...What does that
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Alright everyone!

Describe joy.

Same principles.
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Alright everyone!

A simple question.....what is considered the most redeeming quality of every person who visits this board?

Don't lie, and don't pass the buck, and everyone answers for themselves.

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Dumb man + smart woman = marriage
Dumb man + dumb woman = pregnancy




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I am sorry to say that...... I am leaving out?

Reason:

When a moderator can delete a post after his/her opinion? then this board is not "THE OPINION" board? it was great as it was?. Right now.. it is not the opinion board, it is "MODERAT
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