Vanessa Van Edwards explains that oxytocin, the bonding hormone, spikes during casual side-by-side interactions with light touch and eye contact. Playful, relaxed settings release it more easily than formal ones like job interviews.
Oxytocin happens when we're side by side and we touch arms. If you're moving around a room, you're walking, you're talking, you can put a hand on someone's back. You know, you can kind of lean in and like nudge them a little bit. You can reach out and touch their elbow. That's all oxytocin. Remember, we produce oxytocin through eye contact. It's this look, like that little side glance. You're looking up at someone, you're kind of looking through your hair. Maybe there's a little bit of self-touch. That is a seductive glance because it's breaking ripped. It's so much easier to be playful, to be flirty, to touch, to tease than what do you do for work. It doesn't feel like I'm at work. It doesn't feel like I'm in a job interview. It's different. You would never do that with someone that you're not in a playful scenario with. So doing things, especially things you like or you're curious about, it breeds opportunity for that push, that oxytocin.
