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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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Intranasal oxytocin and a polymorphism in the oxytocin receptor gene are associated with human-directed social behavior in golden retriever dogs.
TL;DR: The oxytocin system may play an important role in dog domestication from the wolf as discussed by the authors, and dogs have evolved unique human analogue social skills enabling them to communicate and cooperate efficiently with humans.
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The effect of intranasal oxytocin versus placebo treatment on the autonomic responses to human sounds in autism: a single-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, crossover design study
I-Fan Lin,Makio Kashino,Haruhisa Ohta,Takashi Yamada,Masayuki Tani,Hiromi Watanabe,Chieko Kanai,Taisei Ohno,Yuko Takayama,Akira Iwanami,Nobumasa Kato +10 more
TL;DR: The difference in SCRs implies that oxytocin nasal spray may enhance orientation behaviors toward human sounds in the presence of other environmental sounds in both ASD and NT adults.
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Oxytocin improves facial emotion recognition in young adults with antisocial personality disorder.
Marion Timmermann,Haang Jeung,Ruth Schmitt,Sabrina Boll,Christine M. Freitag,Katja Bertsch,Sabine C. Herpertz +6 more
TL;DR: Data indicate an improvement of the recognition of fearful and happy facial expressions by OT in young adults with ASPD, further mediated by improved recognition of facial happiness probably reflecting increased social reward responsiveness.
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Salivary oxytocin in pigs, cattle, and goats during positive human-animal interactions
TL;DR: An analytical validation of the measurement of OT in the saliva of three common farm animal species: pigs, cattle and goats and the biological significance of salivary OT concentrations was investigated by using a positive human-animal interaction paradigm.
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Observational fear behavior in rodents as a model for empathy.
TL;DR: It is hoped that the use of rodent models will enhance understanding of the mechanisms of human empathy and provide insights into how to treat social deficits in neuropsychiatric disorders characterized by empathy impairment.
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Personality and Assessment
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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.