Feeling anxious? Dial up Mom, says Science: A recent study shows that girls who were able to chat with their mothers on the phone before a stressful event were beneficiaries of similar levels of the social bonding hormone oxytocin as being in actual physical contact with mommy.

In a just-released study from the University of Bonn, a nasal spray containing the neurotransmitter oxytocin made 24 "healthy males" confronted with photos of children crying and hugging cats reach "significantly higher emotional empathy levels" than their 24 placebo-snorting brethren. The study recommends the spray for use in treating schizophrenia and other diseases, but you just know that some sort of self-proclaimed dating expert is going to start marketing the stuff for her own capitalistic devices. Or at the very least a screenplay.