When you cuddle a cat, the ‘love hormone’ oxytocin is rising in both your brains.
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Some states, especially in the Southeastern US, have large disparities in breastfeeding among racial groups, making clear the need to lower barriers for breastfeeding in the workplace and elsewhere.
It’s pretty common to see face-like patterns in objects – but this quirk can give us insights into human psychology and evolution.
Living with your folks as an adult takes work.
Suddenly being awash in tears shows a strong empathy response – a key component of emotional intelligence.
There is growing evidence that when poor-quality oxytocin is used, it fails to prevent post-partum haemorrhage.
Many features of proteins are analogous to music. Mapping these features together creates new musical compositions that help researchers learn about proteins.
Touch is the first sense to develop in the womb.
Dogs process the sensory world very differently than humans, but love in a way that is entirely familiar.
Rather than a vaccine to beef up your immune system, a psychoactive substance could boost your cooperative, pro-social behavior – curtailing the selfish actions that spur on coronavirus’s spread.
Though a recent study’s results were promising, there is still much that researchers don’t know.
Are the best co-workers really the ones with four legs and a tail? Science says it depends.
Up to 35% of mothers and fathers don’t fall in love with their baby immediately.
When it comes to love, science has not yet got it right. And there’s a wonderful reason why.
The physiology underlying mother-infant bonding can help us understand the connections between positive relationships and health.
Will your marriage be better if you and your partner are genetically compatible? Is there any evidence that certain genes make someone a better or worse partner? And if so, which genes should we test?
As the documentary about ‘Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood’ hits theaters, it’s worth noting that Rogers’ emphasis on kindness and love is proving to be very important to good health.
The “love hormone” system starts to develop in the womb and is important in helping us deal with stress.
Why we love our phones so much might be related to our basic yearnings as human beings, explains a scholar, who is also a pastor.
Naloxone, commonly known as Narcan, is a medicine that temporarily reverses the effects of opioid drugs such as heroin, morphine and oxycodone.
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Deputy Director, The Kids Research Institute Australia, Professor of Autism Research, The University of Western Australia
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Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Professor of Psychology, University of Stirling
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Professor of Psychopharmacology and NHMRC Principal Research Fellow, University of Sydney
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Professor, National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University and Burnet Institute, Burnet Institute
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Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University
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Postdoctoral Scholar of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Professor and Head, Gut-Brain Axis Laboratory, RMIT University
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Professor of Religion, Psychology and Culture, Vanderbilt University
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Professor and Director, National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University
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Scientia Professor of Evolution, UNSW
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NHMRC Peter Doherty Biomedical Fellow at the School of Psychology, University of Sydney
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Academic Program Director (Health), The University of Melbourne
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The Kids Research Institute Australia
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Evolutionary Biologist, ARC Future Fellow, UNSW