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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 Experience Interacts with Serotonin to Affect Functional Connectivity in the Social Behavior Network following Playback of Social Vocalizations in Mice.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of early-life social isolation on the structural and functional connectivity of a social behavior network were investigated using a 60-min playback of female broadband vocalizations.

Relationship quality and oxytocin: Influence of stable and modifiable aspects of relationships

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors investigated the effect of a support enhancement intervention on oxytocin (OT) levels among 34 young married couples, and found that high relationship quality, not distress, was associated with higher OT levels.
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Neural basis of social learning, social deciding, and other-regarding preferences

TL;DR: This work presents a meta-anatomy of the orbitofrontal cortex of rhesus monkeys and its role in reward and punishment representations in the human orbitof prefrontal cortex, and investigates the role of amygdala in this representation in the context of reward-guided behavior.

Self-soothing behaviors with particular reference to oxytocin release induced by non-noxious sensory

TL;DR: Oxytocin, a hypothalamic nonapeptide, is linked to increased levels of social interaction, well-being and anti-stress effects as discussed by the authors, which contributes to every day wellbeing and ability to handle stress.

Effect of Intranasal Oxytocin on Visual Processing and Salience of Human Faces

Lars Westberg
TL;DR: A robust effect that intranasal OT increases the salience of human faces in binocular rivalry, such that dominance durations of faces are longer—this effect is not modulated by the facial expression.
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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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