A new study has found that Oxytocin, the “hormone of love” can help keep stress in check during conflicts between partners. The study, by Beate Ditzen, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences from Emory University in Atlanta, and colleagues from the University of Fribourg and the University of Zurich, was conducted in a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial involving 50 heterosexual couples who the researchers guided into mock arguments by choosing with the couple a topic frequently discussed and unresolved in the relationship.
