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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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Moral Enhancement durch Neurochirurgie? Machbarkeit und ethische Vertretbarkeit

TL;DR: Theoretisch denkbar, aber bisher nicht durch empirische Evidenz gestutzt, ist, dass neurochirurgische Eingriffe die Selbstkontrolle verbessern konnten.
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Oxytocin as the Neurobiological Basis of Synchronization: A Research Proposal in Psychotherapy Settings.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the role of oxytocin as a mediator of physiological synchronization between two or more people interacting without eye contact, on the basis of the following arguments: (a) Both PS and Oxytocin release occur in the same affiliative processes; (b) Aggressivity and conflictual exchange are characterized by both PS and release, an aspect that is only in ostensible contradiction with the previous one; and (c) PS and O2 system functioning have compatible neural underpinnings.
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World-wide Evidence for Gender Difference in Sociality

Tamas David-Barrett
- 06 Mar 2022 - 
TL;DR: In this paper , the frequency of same-aged, adult human groups appearing in public spaces through 2636 hours, recording group formation by 1.2mn people via 170 research assistants in 46 countries across the world.
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Salivary oxytocin after oxytocin administration: Examining the moderating role of childhood trauma.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that trauma did not attenuate the effect of oxytocin administration on salivary oxytoc in male adolescents living in residential youth care facilities, but more robust methodologies are recommended to draw more solid conclusions.
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Modelling Adaptation through Social Allostasis: Modulating the Effects of Social Touch with Oxytocin in Embodied Agents

Imran Khan, +1 more
TL;DR: A model and experiments that investigate the effects and adaptive value of allostatic processes based on hormonal (OT) modulation of affective elements of a social behaviour and show that the effects of these modulatory mechanisms have different adaptive value across different groups and under different environmental circumstance are illustrated.
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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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