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Helping hands, healthy body? Oxytocin receptor gene and prosocial behavior interact to buffer the association between stress and physical health.

Hormones and behavior - 1 Mar 2013

Poulin Michael J, Holman E Alison

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Providing help or support to others buffers the associations between stress and physical health. We examined the function of the neurohormone oxytocin as a biological mechanism for this stress-buffering phenomenon. Participants in a longitudinal study completed a measure of charitable behavior, and over the next two years provided assessments of stressful life events and physician-diagnosed physical ailments....

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PMID: 23354128
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2013.01.004

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