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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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Are infants altercentric? The other and the self in early social cognition.

TL;DR: It is proposed that infants can take other's perspectives because they have an altercentric bias, a combination of the value that human cognition places on others' attention, and an absence of a competing self-perspective which would create a conflict requiring resolution by Executive Functions.
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The effect of oxytocin on human-directed social behaviour in dogs (Canis familiaris).

TL;DR: The present paper reviews the existing literature on how oxytocin is related to different aspects of human‐directed social behaviour in dogs and suggests that standardization in the measurement of peripheral OXT and the administration of IN‐OXT is necessary.
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Oxytocin can impair memory for social and non-social visual objects: A within-subject investigation of oxytocin’s effects on human memory

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that oxytocin can have a memory-impairing effect on both social and non-social visual objects, and the necessity of including a non-treated, baseline group in within-subject designs when investigating oxytocIn's effects on human memory.
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Sniff and mimic - intranasal oxytocin increases facial mimicry in a sample of men

TL;DR: Facial mimicry was increased in the OT group, but effects were strongest for angry infant faces, providing further evidence for the importance of OT in social cognitive skills and suggesting that facial mimicry mediates the effects of OT on improved emotion recognition.
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Towards a new architectural understanding of birth spaces grounded in women's experiences of giving birth

Sarah Joyce
TL;DR: In this article, a new philosophy of birth space design is proposed that values the diverse spatial practices and space-based experiences of childbearing women, across all types of birth venues and experiences of birth.
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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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