“MRI shows a burst of oxytocin generated in the baby’s brain when kissed by the mother.”
Social media posts
Claim dated 30 Jan 2021.
FACTLY rated thisFALSE
What FACTLY found
The mother in the posted photo is Rebecca Saxe, a Cognitive Neuroscientist at MIT. She clarified that “the activations are real fMRI results, of hemodynamic responses while looking at movies of faces, compared to movies of scenes……They have nothing to do with oxytocin, hormones, kissing, or breastfeeding.”
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 30 January 2021. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 15 February 2021, 16 days later. Its rating was “FALSE”.
Where the claim appeared
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