Increased oxytocin helps people read facial expressions with greater accuracy. Video explores the way this hormone impacts social interactions and highlights the way scientists perform research to confirm the findings. Then the video shifts focus to sugar and the way your body processes it. The news isn't good, and your metabolism will suffer if you eat too much candy.

Concepts

hormones, socialization, sugar, calories, metabolism

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Additional Tags

science

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Instructional Ideas

• Research how the bliss molecule works in introverts versus extroverts and if this can change throughout life
• Have scholars track how much sugar they eat in a day versus how much is recommended

Classroom Considerations

• Remember comments are open to the public and are often not appropriate for anyone, especially impressionable teens to read

• This video is hosted on YouTube

Pros

• Includes closed captioning for ease of note taking
• Provides a list of references if you would like to verify any of the research mentioned

Cons

• None