Hormone Spray Is Found To Bolster Trust in Others - WP

[Burma Jones]

Oh, this is just great. Now we can be truly at ease with our overlords...

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Scientists have found the chemical equivalent of the perfect sales pitch: a hormone that makes us more trusting than we normally are.

Volunteers in a study were told they were participating in a decision-making experiment. Those who inhaled the hormone, which occurs naturally in the brain, were more likely to entrust others with large sums of money than were volunteers who inhaled no hormone.
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LINK:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/01/AR2005060101072_pf.html

[quiet.american]

1. Where can I get some. n/t :)

[whistle]

2. First application will be to impregnate all paper currency with...

...this hormone. The second major use will be to put it in all aftershave colognes, lotions and perfumes.

[Fridays Child]

3. So far, it only works when sprayed directly into the nose.

But I'm sure they're working on it.

[AntiCoup2K4]

4. I guess that explains the "chemtrails"

And why half the country has lost their fucking minds.

[Brewman_Jax]

5. Just heard about that

was on NPR this morning.

[sarcasmo]

6. Saw this on an episode of Batman once, I think Catwomen used it, LOL.

[Bamboo]

7. Homemade is better than storebought but takes longer...

The hormone is called oxytocin and is used by doctors to induce labor.It is not an exotic lab creation the nasal spray is ready made from a pharmaceutical company like those tubes of biscuit dough from the grocery cooler. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/uspdi/202434.html
It is known as the "bonding hormone" and is released during sex,your brain is bathed in a chemical that makes you trusting of the one that is in front of you at the time.It continues to be released during this activity and Desmond Morris has claimed that it is the biological basis for love.I wonder if a contract would be valid if you were tricked into it by this hormone,perhaps it could be invalidated no-fault if evidence of its use could be proved.

[Lindacooks]

8. You mean it actually overrides the thought process??

I'd like to try some of that and then go to a Repuke rally and see if I feel more trusting.

[depakid]

9. Sorry, but I don't trust the Post- AT ALL

and no nasal spray's going to do it for me!

I've seen no less than two totally bogus- and I mean bogus- science "reporting" stories in that paper in the last 6 months. I'll need to hear this from another source.

[Dudley_DUright]

10. Apparently BushCo has already mass distributed this

product to about half the country. I see no other rational explanation for the blind trust many people are exhibiting.

[Tigress DEM]

11. This is so Orwellian.