Summary: <p><audio> </audio> </p><p>In this month's episode we look at how men and women's partner preferences are affected by a dose of oxytocin, aka "the love hormone". We'll also find out whether germophobes are more or less likely to pursue short-term relationships.</p><p><a href="http://archive.org/download/pap-2019-02-19/pap-2019-02-19.mp3">Download the MP3</a> </p><p><b>Subscribe!</b><br> Make sure you never miss an episode by subscribing in <a href="http://www.robertburriss.com/itunes">Apple Podcasts</a>, <a href="http://www.robertburriss.com/google">Google Podcasts</a>, or <a href="http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=63199&refid=stpr">Stitcher.</a> </p><p><b>Read the transcript!</b><br> <a href="https://medium.com/@RobertBurriss/disgust-and-short-term-relationships-ff09a773c496">Disgust and Short-Term Relationships</a><br> <a href="https://medium.com/@RobertBurriss/oxytocin-and-mate-choice-5b9e2b81df59">Oxytocin and Mate-Choice</a></p><p><img src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YUNDOnswJk0/XEh6PYHeeRI/AAAAAAAAC1I/cVYXfz4-6H45nnINDyvJQ_GoF9laJ95lgCLcBGAs/s1600/aboutto.jpg"></p><p><i>How does oxytocin affect men and women's partner preferences? <a href="https://freestocks.org/photo/a-couple-about-to-kiss/">Freestocks</a></i></p><p><b>The articles covered in the show:</b> </p><p>Al-Shawaf, L., Lewis, D. M. G., Ghossainy, M. E., & Buss, D. M. (in press). Experimentally inducing disgust reduces desire for short-term mating. <span style="font-style: italic;">Evolutionary Psychological Science</span>. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40806-018-0179-z">Read summary</a></p><p>Xu, L., Becker, B., Luo, R., Zheng, X., Zhao, W., Zhang, Q., et al. (2018). Oxytocin amplifies sex differences in human mate choice. <span style="font-style: italic;">BioRxiv</span>. <a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/416198v1">Read preprint</a></p>
