22 Jun 2019, 10:02 pm
22 Jun 2019, 10:47 pm
22 Jun 2019, 11:00 pm
jimmy m wrote:
I had many dogs during my lifetime. Most of these I obtained when they were puppies. When I pick them up and gaze into their puppy eyes, I immediately sense a form of affection. I gaze into their eyes and a type of bonding occurs, it melts my heart.
I came across an article yesterday that referenced an interesting study. So I tracked it down today. It is called Oxytocin-gaze positive loop and the coevolution of human-dog bonds by Miho Nagasawa et. al.. Here is a link: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/348/6232/333
The study shows that "gazing behavior from dogs, but not wolves, increased urinary oxytocin concentrations in owners, which consequently facilitated owners’ affiliation and increased oxytocin concentration in dogs. Further, nasally administered oxytocin increased gazing behavior in dogs, which in turn increased urinary oxytocin concentrations in owners. These findings support the existence of an interspecies oxytocin-mediated positive loop facilitated and modulated by gazing, which may have supported the coevolution of human-dog bonding by engaging common modes of communicating social attachment."
In other words gazing into a puppy's eyes sets off a hormonal chain both in a human and a puppy that produces a bonding experience.
One of the differences between NTs and Aspies is that Aspies do not make very good eye contact. In other words when I do not gaze into someones eyes I am defeating a common instinctive trait used by NTs to bond with other NTs. I do not trigger a release an oxytocin hormonal chain that signals to them that I am friendly.
I came across an article yesterday that referenced an interesting study. So I tracked it down today. It is called Oxytocin-gaze positive loop and the coevolution of human-dog bonds by Miho Nagasawa et. al.. Here is a link: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/348/6232/333
The study shows that "gazing behavior from dogs, but not wolves, increased urinary oxytocin concentrations in owners, which consequently facilitated owners’ affiliation and increased oxytocin concentration in dogs. Further, nasally administered oxytocin increased gazing behavior in dogs, which in turn increased urinary oxytocin concentrations in owners. These findings support the existence of an interspecies oxytocin-mediated positive loop facilitated and modulated by gazing, which may have supported the coevolution of human-dog bonding by engaging common modes of communicating social attachment."
In other words gazing into a puppy's eyes sets off a hormonal chain both in a human and a puppy that produces a bonding experience.
One of the differences between NTs and Aspies is that Aspies do not make very good eye contact. In other words when I do not gaze into someones eyes I am defeating a common instinctive trait used by NTs to bond with other NTs. I do not trigger a release an oxytocin hormonal chain that signals to them that I am friendly.
This is new to me.
Fascinating.
BTW, I am an autist who has no trouble looking into people's eyes.
I have had to learn to inhibit eye-contact.
Doesn't seem to help me with interpersonal relationships with people. <chuckle>
Sheldon's smile.
Fake or genuine?
22 Jun 2019, 11:35 pm
