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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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Religion priming and an oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) polymorphism interact to affect self-control in a social context.

TL;DR: The results showed that experimentally priming religion increased self-control behaviors for people with GG genotypes more so than people with AA/AG genotypes, which highlights the importance of the social context for understanding genetic moderation of psychological effects.
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Modulation of the Endocannabinoid and Oxytocinergic Systems as a Potential Treatment Approach for Social Anxiety Disorder

TL;DR: It is concluded that although current available studies show promising results regarding both the safety and efficacy of cannabidiol and oxytocin for the treatment of SAD, most studies were performed using single or few doses of these compounds, with small sample sizes, and future studies should explore the anxiolytic potential of These compounds using long-term, placebo-controlled designs with larger samples.
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The Role of Oxytocin in Early Life Adversity and Later Psychopathology: a Review of Preclinical and Clinical Studies

TL;DR: The putative role of oxytocin in early life adversity-mediated risk for later development of subtypes of psychiatric conditions is examined and polymorphisms in the oxytocine receptor and emerging epigenetic studies point to a link between Oxytocinergic systems and psychiatric disorders.
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Paradoxical Effects of Intranasal Oxytocin on Trust in Inpatient and Community Adolescents

TL;DR: Examining the effect of intranasal oxytocin on attachment-related and non-attachment-related trust in an interactive game determined how this effect differs among inpatient adolescents and healthy controls and whether this effect is moderated by attachment security takes a first step toward determining whether, and for whom, Oxytocin may have a trust-enhancing effect.
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What DNA methylation modifications and/or genetic variations interact with childhood maltreatment in the development of depression: A systematic review.

TL;DR: An urgent need for genetic and epigenetic research in the area of childhood maltreatment and depression is highlighted, with changes in ID3, TPPP, GRIN1, and OXTR DNA methylation sites found to be involved in the childhood malt treatment-depression relationship.
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Mindblindness : An Essay on Autism and Theory of Mind

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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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