Love Potion #9: Study Challenges Oxytocin’s ‘Love Hormone’ Reputation as Key to Pair Bonding
New research from the University of California, San Francisco and Stanford Medicine challenges the long-held belief that the oxytocin receptor, known as the “love hormone,” is essential to the formation of social bonds. The study, published in the journal Neuron, found that prairie voles raised without oxytocin receptors exhibited monogamous mating, attachment and parenting behaviors …