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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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The Effects of Acute Arginine Vasopressin Administration on Social Cognition in Healthy Males

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that in this sample of participants, AVP does not enhance the ability to understand higher order emotion from others, and adds to the growing body of research exploring the influence of neuropeptide hormones in social behaviour.
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Oxytocin as a biomarker of the formation of therapeutic alliance in psychotherapy and counseling psychology.

TL;DR: The potential of OT as a biomarker of therapeutic change in psychotherapy and counseling psychology, especially of the therapeutic alliance, is demonstrated using data collected in a randomized controlled trial of psychotherapy for major depressive disorder.
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Interactions between oxytocin receptor gene methylation and callous-unemotional traits impact socioaffective brain systems in conduct-disordered offenders.

TL;DR: Examining interactions between OXTRMeth and CU traits in youths with CD may affect brain systems critical to decoding and integrating socioaffective information, and may hold promise for indicated prevention and personalized treatment by targeting oxytocinergic function.
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Trauma Disclosure Moderates the Effects of Oxytocin on Intrusions and Neural Responses to Fear.

TL;DR: OXT reduced the total number of intrusions in participants exhibiting strong trauma disclosure and enhanced responses to fearful faces in the left middle frontal cortex but had no effect on the functional connectivity between these regions in participants with weak trauma disclosure.
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Genetic, Hormonal, and Neural Underpinnings of Human Aggressive Behavior

TL;DR: This chapter reviews the social neuroscience literature on human aggression, including research in molecular genetics, neuroendocrinology, neuroimaging, and social psychology to indicate that the amygdala and orbitofrontal cortex are critical components of the neural circuitry of aggression.
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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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