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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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Social ‘wanting’ dysfunction in autism: neurobiological underpinnings and treatment implications

TL;DR: The fundamental goal of this review is to present a fine-grained literature analysis of reward function in ASD with reference to a validated neurobiological model of reward: the ‘wanting’/’liking’ framework.
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Oxytocin plasma concentrations after single intranasal oxytocin administration - a study in healthy men.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that this time window differs between individuals, but that, for the used dose, it does not extend beyond 150 min post administration, and provides preliminary evidence that intranasal oxytocin has an enhancing effect on testosterone in healthy men.
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Oxytocin and social motivation.

TL;DR: The role of oxytocin (OT) as it relates to social motivation is examined and the OT system functions as an important element within a complex, developmentally sensitive biobehavioral system.
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Human neuroimaging of oxytocin and vasopressin in social cognition.

TL;DR: The findings to-date from investigations of the acute and chronic effects of oxytocin and vasopressin on neural activity underlying social cognitive processes using "pharmacological fMRI" and "imaging genetics", respectively are reviewed.
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Insular cortex mediates approach and avoidance responses to social affective stimuli.

TL;DR: In a new model, male rats approach stressed juveniles but avoid stressed adults; these behaviors require excitatory action of oxytocin within the insular cortex, which implicateinsular cortex as a key component in the circuit underlying age-dependent social responses to stressed conspecifics.
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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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