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Oxytocin Increases Generosity in Humans

Zak PJ, Stanton AA, Ahmadi S. · PloS one · 2007

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“We have shown that OT raised generosity in the UG by 80% over placebo”

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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17987115/ · https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0001128 · https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0001128

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Oxytocin Increases Generosity in Humans
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Zak PJ, Stanton AA, Ahmadi S.
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https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0001128 · https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0001128 · https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2040517/

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“We have shown that OT raised generosity in the UG by 80% over placebo”

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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17987115/ · https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0001128 · https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0001128

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    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17987115/ · https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0001128 · https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0001128

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Zak et al. 2007 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.

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