carmencita

What about that Buck guy that was a donator to Clinton, you know, liking to see Black young men get high on drugs? Is that what he was doing, was he using this drug. Experimenting on how he could get them to be more "friendly", seeing how much it would take?

carmencita

The better to confuse us. No one, of course would ever get these mixed up. You know, and take the wrong one. Never Could they not have used different names. Seems like a plan.

3141592653

Oxytocin is secreted in breast milk to facilitate bonding. It actually plays a huge role before baby is even born. Its also released when people are intimate with eacother . Often called "the love hormone."

cantsleepawink

Many psychopaths and sociopaths, or people who are on that spectrum, are well acquainted with this hormone and in their interactions with other people use tactics which take advantage of this 'bonding' hormone. Will be released naturally during a 'grooming phase' for example. Not rocket science. It's used all the time in media campaigns and advertising:

The Science of Emotion in Marketing: How Our Brains Decide What to Share and Whom to Trust

“Understand the emotional appeal and key drivers behind the discovery, viewing, sharing and creation of online video, photography and visual content... In the language of the visual web, when we share a video or an image, we’re not just sharing the object, but we’re sharing in the emotional response it creates.”

Five Ways We Rationalize Abuse And Why We Need To Stop

What many people don’t understand is that our own brain chemistry can lock us into this addiction to the narcissistic or sociopathic partner. Dopamine, cortisol, adrenaline and oxytocin are all implicated in what I like to call the “biochemical bond from hell.”

Piscina

A part of an article on oxytocin:

Imagine for a moment that you could gain everyone’s trust in an instant – you could sell more, love more and accomplish more than you ever imagined. Or so says the online marketing spiel for the drug oxytocin. ... The idea is to spray this “love drug” on yourself in the morning to elicit strong feelings of trust from those you encounter. In effect, you suddenly develop the skills and seductive qualities of a Casanova. Or, if you’re in sales, your commissions should go through the roof. Oxytocin is a mammalian hormone produced in the brain. It’s well known for its role in orgasm, the birthing processing and milk ejection during breastfeeding. More recently, a synthetic form of oxytocin – administered nasally – has been shown to promote trust, altruism, emotion recognition and increase sensitivity to eye gaze. ...The drug may also suppress the motivation for people with generalised anxiety disorders to withdraw from social situations. Neuroimaging studies have reported that oxytocin decreases activation in the amygdala – a key region in the “fear” network in the brain. But we’re beginning to realise that oxytocin has a number of other unexpected effects – it can actually increase negative emotions. A 2009 study published in Biological Psychiatry reported that oxytocin enhanced a wide range of social behaviours, including increasing the negative emotions of gloating and envy. And last year a study on borderline personality disorder – which is associated with significant difficulties in trusting others – found oxytocin actually decreased trust. This was clearly not what the authors hypothesised.

So the oxytocin is worn not by the person whose trust you want to elicit, but by the person wanting to elicit the trust.

https://theconversation.com/the-dark-side-of-the-love-drug-oxytocin-linked-to-gloating-envy-and-aggression-2781

CapitalistUtahraptor

Oh, I'm sure pedos would love putting that particular characteristic to use.

Especially proponents of the "love is just chemicals" argument.

Narcissism

Oxytocin and Vasopresin are drugs that are produced when Neurotypicals (normal people) fall in love. Psychopaths don't produce these chemicals hence why they are always wary of humans.

equineluvr

NEGATIVE.

1) Oxytocin and Vasopressin are released FOUR YEARS INTO THE RELATIONSHIP, after bonding has already occurred.

"After about 4 years in a relationship, dopamine decreases and attraction goes down. If things are going well, it gets replaced by the hormones oxytocin and vasopressin, which create the desire to bond, affiliate with, and nurture your partner. You want to cuddle and be close and share your deepest secrets with her. You plan and dream together."

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-mindful-self-express/201603/the-science-love-and-attachment

2) Go research brain anatomy -- specifically the insular cortex -- and get back to us.

spacewitch

What about the different kind of neuroatypicals then? (Asperger, adhd, gifted people, etc...)

3141592653

People with those conditions definitely produce oxytocin

Warmoose76

Wow that's not true, oxycotin is synthetic, it's not a normal part of your body.

Narcissism

You are confusing the two, the natural one is OxyTOCin. The synthetic one is Oxycontin

Vindicator

You can buy it on Amazon.

I believe it has also been shown useful in cases of attachment disorder. I don't know if it is strong enough to overcome the hormones triggered by abuse/fight or flight (cortisol, epinepherine etc), but it might help pedo's groom kids.

bopper

My adrenals are shot Vindicator.

Vindicator

I am sorry to hear that, bopper. I suspect that is fairly common around here. :-(

bopper

Ha, thank-you, and you're probably right :)

DrPenguin

Oxytocin is a very interesting chemical. It is released when a mother holds her child. It is bonding on a level that can't really be explained by science.

Cal Berkley (I think) did a study where participants were divided by a wall except for a hole where they held hands. They were given oxytocin nasally and told to try to communicate emotions to the other person without moving their hand. An extreme significance was seen compared to placebo.

Warmoose76

Oxycotin is synthetic and is never in the body unless you take it.

equineluvr

OxyContin is a synthetic opioid. OxyTOCIN is the hormone.

Narcissism

Different chemical Oxytocin is the natural one.