scispace - formally typeset
Journal ArticleDOI

Social effects of oxytocin in humans: context and person matter.

Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
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

Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

Psychopathy: clinical features, developmental basis and therapeutic challenges.

TL;DR: This review is to provide clinicians with an appreciation of the clinical features of psychopathy, an understanding of the structural and functional derangements and the genetic and environmental factors which serve as the basis for the development of Psychopathy and a summary of published reports of pharmacological approaches to the management of this disorder.
Book ChapterDOI

Highlighting the Contextual Nature of Interpersonal Relationships

TL;DR: In this paper, the implications of four key processes for relationship functioning depend on the context in which the relationship is situated; whereas certain processes are associated with less desirable outcomes on average, all appear to offer interpersonal benefits in certain situations.
Proceedings ArticleDOI

A hug from a robot encourages prosocial behavior

TL;DR: A huge, teddy-bear-like robot is developed that can give reciprocal hugs to people and experimentally investigated its effects on their behaviors, showing that those who were hugged by a robot donated more money than those who only hugged the robot, i.e., without a reciprocated hug.
Journal ArticleDOI

Effects of oxytocin administration on spirituality and emotional responses to meditation.

TL;DR: Intranasal OT increased self-reported spirituality on two separate measures and this effect remained significant a week later and the effect of OT on spirituality was moderated by OT-related genotypes.
Journal ArticleDOI

The impact of oxytocin administration and maternal love withdrawal on event-related potential (ERP) responses to emotional faces with performance feedback

TL;DR: Oxytocin heightened processing of the happy and disgusted faces primarily for those reporting less love withdrawal, suggesting that more maternal love withdrawal relates to the allocation of attention toward the motivationally relevant combination of negative feedback with a disgusted face.
References
More filters
Book

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.
Book

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.
Journal ArticleDOI

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.
Journal ArticleDOI

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.
Related Papers (5)