Hormone love makes people lie more blatantly

Researchers who discovered oxytocin hormones, which are known as love hormones, can help people who are faithful and good can also abide by human bad habits: Lying.

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Researchers say oxytocin is released in the human body in many different social situations. In particular, this hormone is most secreted when people are in love or having children. Therefore, it is also known as love hormone, often coupled with sophistication and attachment.

Recently, however, researchers have discovered that the hormone oxytocin can cause people to lie more to serve the interests of the group and the family. Even the researchers found that subjects given hormones would lie more, easily, with less hesitation.

Specifically, researchers have designed a simple computer game to ask players to predict the results of virtual coin launches, then voluntarily report to researchers. Want to win in that game, the volunteers have to lie.

If it is reported that the prediction is correct, their team will get 40 cents, if they are wrong they will not get the money. In the first round, 60 healthy men participated, half of whom received small amounts of oxytoxin and the other half received placebo. Players who use oxytoxin said they anticipated winning an average of 79.7%, while those taking placebo thought they were only guessing at 66.7%.

Players who use love hormones report their average number of predictions for 2.22 seconds. Those taking placebo took 2.86 seconds to decide to tell their results to researchers.

The study was published in the Proceedings of the Institute of Scientific Forestry.'To protect and promote interests, people can bend truths and behave dishonestly ,' said Shaul Shalvi's team from Ben-Gurion University in the Negev, Israel and Carsten de Dreu of Amsterdam University of Ha. Lan, the conclusion.

' When they use dishonesty to serve group interests, oxytocin will make people lie more and more blatantly . Compared with placebo, oxytocin also helps people quickly make more dishonest decisions , 'the team concluded.

Scientists also say the effects of oxytocin are particularly prominent when the lie has the opportunity to be created to avoid financial loss. However, when the lie only served its own interests, oxytocin did not cause any impact.