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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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An Expectancy-Value Approach to Attachment

TL;DR: This article examined the cognitive dynamics of working models by examining attachment scripts, consisting of outcome expectancies and associated strategies as represented in associative networks, and showed spreading activation dynamics that reveal implicit expectancies.
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Gene-environment interaction: Oxytocin receptor (OXTR) polymorphisms and parenting style as potential predictors for depressive symptoms.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the potential interaction between oxytocin receptor (OXTR) single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and negative parenting style in relation to depressive symptoms among young adults.
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Endogenous oxytocin, cortisol, and testosterone in response to group singing

TL;DR: In this article , the authors examined the hypothesis that a portion of these benefits stem from changes in endocrine activity associated with affiliation and social bonding and found that singing together enhances feelings of social connection more than speaking together.
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Depressive Symptoms and Social Context Modulate Oxytocin's Effect on Negative Memory Recall.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of intranasal oxytocin on human social cognition are mixed, perhaps because its effects are context-dependent and subject to inter-individual differences.
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Does oxytocin lead to emotional interference during a working memory paradigm

TL;DR: Despite oxytocin’s previously proposed role in enhanced emotional processing, no proof was found that this would lead to reduced performance on a concurrent cognitive task.
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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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