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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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Relationship between dietary intake and behaviors with oxytocin: a systematic review of studies in adults.

TL;DR: Overall, few studies included comprehensive investigation of dietary intakes through the use of validated assessment tools, and dietary intake and behaviors appear to have some influence on oxytocin.
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Differential susceptibility effects of oxytocin gene (OXT)polymorphisms and perceived parenting on social anxiety among adolescents

TL;DR: The findings may be interpreted from the perspective of the social salience hypothesis of oxytocin, with rs4813625 affecting social anxiety levels along a perceived unsafe–safe social context dimension.
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Oxytocin promotes altruistic punishment

TL;DR: This article found evidence that intranasal applied oxytocin, an important hormone for modulating social behavior, enhances the inclination to sanction free-riders in a social dilemma situation.
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Physiological and health-related correlates of the narcissistic personality

TL;DR: A review of the literature on narcissism and psychological health can be found in this paper, where the authors summarize known health (Part I) and physiological correlates (Part II) of the narcissistic personality.
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Oxytocin and Human Evolution.

TL;DR: Oxytocin supports growth during development, resilience, and healing across the lifespan, and has anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory effects, helping to explain the pervasive adaptive consequences of social behavior for emotional and physical health.
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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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