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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 role of oxytocin on peaceful associations and sociality in mammals

TL;DR: This work summarises the most current studies that have investigated oxytocin’s role in regulating stable peaceful associations not directly related to mating, and proposes a novel research approach to evaluate the relationship between individual variation in social tendencies and variation in the oxytociergic system.

Multi-Modal Outcomes from Interpersonal Need (Un)Fulfillment: The Emotional, Cognitive and Behavioral Derivatives of Consecutive Social Contingencies

TL;DR: The relationship between interpersonal communication and relationships, power and intimacy, on the activation of individualistic and prosocial affect systems and subsequent interpersonal outcomes has been investigated in this paper, where manipulated social triumph-defeat was followed by social inclusion-exclusion to examine their combined effect on interpersonal outcomes.
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Variations in Maternal Behavior—Oxytocin and Reward Pathways—Peripheral Measures Matter?!

TL;DR: The most notable findings include a significant correlation of ratings of maternal ‘synchrony', where there is a close coordination of maternal and infant behavior based on the objective micro-coding of the mother–infant dyadic interactions with peripheral OT levels.
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Endogenous oxytocin predicts helping and conversation as a function of group membership

TL;DR: Exogenous OT predicts helping behaviour and conversation, importantly as a function of group membership, and this effect occurs in parallel to uniquely human cognitive processes.
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Strategies for Fostering a Genuine Feeling of Connection in Technologically Mediated Systems

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors present a transitional definition of mediated genuine connection and nine design strategies embodied within 50 design artifacts: affective self-disclosure, reflection on unity, shared embodied experience, transcendent emotions, embodied metaphors, interpersonal distance, touch, provocations, and play.
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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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