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A nasal spray containing the hormone linked to bonding helps people with autism become more sociable and trusting, scientists have found.

He is currently Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology and Director of the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology in the School of Anthropology. His principal research interest is the evolution of sociality, with specific focus on humans, nonhuman primates and ungulates.

Penn State students and staff, as well as others, will wander around State College, Pa., for three weeks, pausing intermittently to drop their heads down as they tap on smart phones to answer detailed questions about how they feel immediately after nearly every social interaction they have.

Audrey Dussutour never had a special fondness for ants, but over the last decade, she’s gotten to know them very well—especially their propensity to act as a single organism though hundreds or thousands of individuals may comprise a single colony.