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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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Interplay between the oxytocin and opioid systems in regulating social behaviour

TL;DR: This review highlights interactions between oxytocin and the opioid system that serve to influence social behaviour and proposes a parallel-mechanism hypothesis to explain the supralinear effects of combinatorial neuropharmacological approaches.
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The effects of oxytocin administration on individuals with ASD: Neuroimaging and behavioral evidence.

TL;DR: The effects of oxytocin administration in ASD is reviewed, with a focus on functional outcomes from neuroimaging investigations and evidence of potential therapeutic benefits are reviewed, as well as limitations of extant research.
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From Oxytocin to Health: exploring the relationship between OXTR rs53576, emotional stability, social support, and health

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the association between OXTR rs53576 (GG genotype) and the personality trait of emotional stability and found that individuals with the G homozygous allele had higher scores in emotional stability.
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Oxytocin modulates human chemosensory decoding of sex in a dose-dependent manner

TL;DR: In this article, a competitive antagonist of both oxytocin and vasopressin receptors called atosiban, administered nasally, modulated the decoding of androstadienone and estratetraenol in manners that were dose-dependent, nonmonotonic, and contingent upon the recipients' social proficiency.
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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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