A new study has found that oxytocin – labelled the ‘love hormone’ by some – can encourage fidelity. German researchers discovered that men in monogamous relationships who were given doses of oxytocin spray stayed away from an attractive women they didn’t know compared with monogamous men who were given placebo. The spray however had no effect on the distance that single men chose to keep between themselves and attractive women MyHealthNewsDaily reported. ‘The results suggest the hormone promotes fidelity in humans’ said study researcher Dr Rene Hurlemann of the University of Bonn. In humans oxytocin also promotes the bonding between mothers and
