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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 neural basis of social influence and attitude change

TL;DR: Future progress in this field will depend upon the ability of researchers to dissociate underlying motivations for attitude change in different paradigms, and to utilize neuroimaging methods to advance social psychological theories of social influence.
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Intranasal oxytocin, social cognition and neurodevelopmental disorders: A meta-analysis.

TL;DR: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials considering the effect of intranasal oxytocin (IN-OT) on social cognitive domains across a range of NDDs revealed that IN-OT had no significant effect on emotion recognition, and a moderate but non-significant effect on empathy.
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The prosocial effects of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA): Controlled studies in humans and laboratory animals.

TL;DR: Controlled laboratory studies indicate that MDMA alters social feelings, information processing, and behavior in humans, and social behavior in rodents, which is consistent with drug folklore and likely motivate recreational ecstasy use.
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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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