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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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Upward spirals of positive emotions and religious behaviors.

TL;DR: In this article, a review of the literature on the reciprocal relationship between positive emotions and religion/spirituality and individual differences predicting greater positive emotions derived from engaging in religious practices is presented.
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Specification of oxytocinergic and vasopressinergic circuits in the developing mouse brain

TL;DR: Using brain clearing techniques and 3D imaging, this paper reconstructed the specification of oxytocinergic and vasopressinergic circuits in the developing mouse brain with unprecedented cellular resolution.
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Validation of Salivary Oxytocin and Vasopressin as Biomarkers in Domestic Dogs

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs) for the measurement of salivary Oxytocin (OT) and Vasopressin (AVP) in domestic dogs.
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Variation in the oxytocin receptor gene moderates the protective effects of a family-based prevention program on telomere length.

TL;DR: Telomere length outcomes following a family‐based prevention program are explored and reduced telomere shortening 5 years post intervention is identified among those originally exposed to nonsupportive parenting and randomized to the intervention condition.
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Electrophysiological correlates of oxytocin-induced enhancement of social performance monitoring.

TL;DR: The current study shows that oxytocin enhances performance monitoring specifically for social mistakes, in line with a presumed role for Oxytocin in salience attribution to social cues and underlines its context-dependency.
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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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