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Mating hormone may make people more trusting with money.(oxytocin)

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| June 01, 2005 | Flam, Faye | COPYRIGHT 2007 The Philadelphia Inquirer. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Faye Flam

PHILADELPHIA _ A hormone known to make fools fall in love may also part fools from their money, according to a recent experiment from Switzerland.

There, a team of psychologists and economists set up a game simulating financial investment and found that a whiff of the hormone oxytocin _ previously linked to mating in other mammals _ induced human subjects to more readily trust others with money. The findings were published in today's issue of the journal Nature.

"What you're seeing in this story is just the beginning _ just the tip of the iceberg of what oxytocin may be doing in humans," said Larry Young, a psychiatry professor at Emory University.

The findings suggest that unconscious,…

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