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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.About:
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.read more
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Oxytocin induces positive expectations about ambivalent stimuli (cognitive bias) in dogs.
Anna Kis,Anna Kis,Anna Hernádi,Anna Hernádi,Orsolya Kanizsár,Orsolya Kanizsár,Márta Gácsi,József Topál +7 more
TL;DR: This study provides the first evidence for the impact of oxytocin on dogs' judgement bias and also shows that the social-communicative nature of the task situation modulates the effect of Oxytocin.
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A pilot six-week randomized controlled trial of oxytocin on social cognition and social skills in schizophrenia
TL;DR: Results showed within group improvements in fear recognition, perspective taking, and a reduction in negative symptoms in the oxytocin group.
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Does perceived burdensomeness erode meaning in life among older adults
TL;DR: Empirically supported treatments for late-life depression could be adapted to focus on perceptions of burdensomeness and its connections with meaning in life, as suggested by the findings.
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Adaptations for social cognition in the primate brain
TL;DR: Results suggest that differences in cooperation between the two groups are a matter of degree rather than constituting a fundamental, qualitative distinction, and individuals must make adaptive choices that balance competition and cooperation—often with the same partners.
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Acting on Anger Social Anxiety Modulates Approach-Avoidance Tendencies After Oxytocin Administration
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that oxytocin facilitates approach in humans in response to social threat, which verifies its anxiolytic potential and underscores the moderating role of dispositional factors reported in endocrine research and their therapeutic implications.
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Mindblindness : An Essay on Autism and Theory of Mind
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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.
Walter Mischel,Yuichi Shoda +1 more
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.