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Until recently, though, scientists had not considered whether a substance that promotes cuddliness and warm, intimate bonding might also play a role in competitive sports.But the idea makes sense, says Gert-Jan Pepping, a researcher at the Center for Human Movement Sciences at the University of Groningen in The Netherlands, and the author of a new review of oxytocin and competition. "Being part of a team involves emotions, as for instance when a team scores, and these emotions are associated with brain chemicals."In the shootouts, he says, each player almost certainly had experienced a shared burst of oxytocin, and in the rush of positive feeling, had shot better.

尽管如此，科学家直到最近才开始思考：这种物质既然能拉近人与人的距离，提升彼此之间的亲密关系，那么它是否也会对竞技运动产生影响？这一想法不无道理，戈特-让·佩平（Gert-Jan Pepping）如此认为。佩平博士是荷兰格罗宁根大学(University of Groningen)人类运动学研究中心的研究员，他发表了一篇新的论文，探讨后叶催产素与竞争的关系。“参与球队与情绪有关，比如当球队得分时；这些情绪又离不开大脑分泌的化学物质。”佩平解释说，在点球大战中每一位球员几乎都会出现后叶催产素的释放，心中进而涌起积极乐观的情绪，因此射得更准。

More telling, in a study presented last month at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in New Orleans, male prairie voles that exercised by running on wheels over six weeks displayed changes in their nervous systems related to increased oxytocin production and bonded rapidly and sturdily with new female cage cohabitants, while unexercised males showed little interest in any particular mate."Lots of stresses can trigger oxytocin release, among them exercise," says William Kenkel, a doctoral candidate at the University of Illinois at Chicago, who led the study. He continued that "it stands to reason, then," that such exercise-related oxytocin release "could facilitate social bonding."Athletes, by the way, aren't the only group affected by oxytocin in a sports setting, "Sports fans, too, experience spurts of oxytocin release," Dr. Pepping says, including the half-hearted. "Even when you don't much like sports," he says, watching others high-five and leap about the living room after their favored team scores will lead "your body to release oxytocin." At that moment, we are all a fervent Bears or Giants or Oklahoma City Thunder fan, whatever we might think, in our more sober moments, about that James Harden trade.