Post Messenger Recorder -

With the help of 80 men and 80 women in the Belleville area this spring and summer, Citizen Science Belleville plans to test the replicability of an experiment published by Jennifer Merolla and her colleagues under the title “Oxytocin and the Biological Basis for Interpersonal and Political Trust”.

“Our scope is health, relationships, and well-being, and we chose a relationships experiment this time,” says founding member Betsy Blum. “Merolla is a political scientist, but don’t get distracted by that—the biological mechanisms behind trust aren’t specific to politics.”...