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Social effects of oxytocin in humans: context and person matter.

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It is proposed that this literature can be informed by an interactionist approach in which the effects of oxytocin are constrained by features of situations and/or individuals.
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This article is published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences.The article was published on 2011-07-01. It has received 1311 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social cognition & Prosocial behavior.

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Birthplace in Australia: Processes and interactions during the intrapartum transfer of women from planned homebirth to hospital

TL;DR: Supporting woman centred care in homebirth transfers means acknowledging the social challenges of collaborating in the unique context of a transferred woman's hospital birthing room.
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Endogenous Oxytocin Release Eliminates In-Group Bias in Monetary Transfers With Perspective-Taking.

TL;DR: The analysis shows that the strength of identification with one’s group diminished the effects that an increase in OT had on reducing bias, but bias only recurred when group identification reached 87% of its maximum value.
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Neural and behavioral effects of oxytocin administration during theory of mind in schizophrenia and controls: a randomized control trial

TL;DR: RTPJ activity during ToM might be a potential neural target for the treatment of social cognitive deficits in schizophrenia, and a significant positive correlation was found between oxytocin induced increases in rTPJActivity and accuracy, indicating that oxytoc in improved rTPj activity in schizophrenia predicted behavioral improvement.
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Serum oxytocin concentrations in current and recent suicide survivors are lower than in healthy controls

TL;DR: The results support the notion that suicide attempts are closely linked to suicide survivors' perceptions of the quality of their social lives, and serum oxytocin concentrations support this notion.
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Attachment security and recent stressful life events predict oxytocin levels: a pilot study of pregnant women with high levels of cumulative psychosocial adversity.

TL;DR: Lower OT levels were found among Those who were insecurely attached, and among those who experienced SLE within the last year, which may in turn predict poorer maternal mental health and caregiving outcomes during the postpartum period.
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Mindblindness : An Essay on Autism and Theory of Mind

TL;DR: The four steps autism and mindblindness how brains read minds the language of the eyes mindreading - back to the future was discussed in evolutionary psychology and social chess mindreading as discussed by the authors.
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Personality and Assessment

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the acquired meaning of stimuli and on the situation as perceived, viewing the individual as a cognitive-affective being who construes, interprets, and transforms the stimulus in a dynamic reciprocal interaction with the social world.
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Oxytocin increases trust in humans

TL;DR: It is shown that intranasal administration of oxytocin, a neuropeptide that plays a key role in social attachment and affiliation in non-human mammals, causes a substantial increase in trust among humans, thereby greatly increasing the benefits from social interactions.
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A cognitive-affective system theory of personality: Reconceptualizing situations, dispositions, dynamics, and invariance in personality structure.

TL;DR: A theory was proposed to reconcile paradoxical findings on the invariance of personality and the variability of behavior across situations to account for individual differences in predictable patterns of variability across situations.
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