Psychological scientist Mo ra Mikolajczak from the Universit ufffd catholique de Louvain, Belgium, and colleagues investigated this possibility. In this experiment, volunteers received either a placebo or oxytoxin nasal spray.

Then, they played a trust game in which they received a certain amount of money which they could share with a partner (which would then triple), according to a Universit ufffd catholique de Louvain statement.