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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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Oxytocin and the biopsychology of performance in team sports

TL;DR: It is argued that oxytocin is related to biopsychological processes aimed at convergence of emotions and moods between people, and in doing so it is a critical neuropeptide involved in the shaping of important team processes in sport such as trust, generosity, altruism, cohesion, cooperation, and social motivation.
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Transactions Between Substance Use Intervention, the Oxytocin Receptor (OXTR) Gene, and Peer Substance Use Predicting Youth Alcohol Use.

TL;DR: The oxytocin receptor (OXTR) gene’s moderation of associations between exposure to a substance misuse intervention, average peer substance use, and adolescents’ own alcohol use during the 9th-grade is investigated.
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The oxytocinergic system modulates sadistic context-dependent empathy in humans.

TL;DR: The results revealed that sadistic contexts modulate oxytocinergic effects on empathy at both behavioral and neural levels, which is moderated by individual’s trait empathy.
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Effects of Three Lipidated Oxytocin Analogs on Behavioral Deficits in CD38 Knockout Mice.

TL;DR: Three analogs of OT are synthesized, suggesting that the lipidation of OT has some therapeutic benefits, and LOT-1 would be most useful because of its long-last activity.
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Land Functions, Rural Space Governance, and Farmers’ Environmental Perceptions: A Case Study from the Huanjiang Karst Mountain Area, China

TL;DR: Zhang et al. as discussed by the authors designed a survey to measure rural households' perceptions of three types of rural spaces: ecological, living, and production spaces, and their perceptions and satisfaction with ecological-living-productive spaces were evaluated with the use of structural equation modeling.
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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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