Trial reportSocial cognitive and affective neuroscience2013
Oxytocin selectively increases perceptions of harm for victims but not the desire to punish offenders of criminal offenses.
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- Neurobiological Mechanisms of Responding to Injustice.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2018Trial
- The Interplay of Oxytocin and Attachment in Schizophrenic Patients: An fMRI Study.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- From Oxytocin to Compassion: The Saliency of Distress.Biology · 2023Article
- Neurocognitive mechanisms of reactions to second- and third-party justice violations.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Oxytocin reactivity to an emotional challenge paradigm and its relation to social-cognitive functions in healthy volunteers.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2019Article
- Oxytocin-related single-nucleotide polymorphisms, family environment, and psychopathic traits.Personality disorders · 2018Article
- Ethanol facilitates socially evoked memory recall in mice by recruiting pain-sensitive anterior cingulate cortical neurons.Nature communications · 2018Article
- Oxytocin for the treatment of drug and alcohol use disorders.Behavioural pharmacology · 2016Review
- The Effect of Oxytocin on Third-Party Altruistic Decisions in Unfair Situations: An fMRI Study.Scientific reports · 2016Article
- Neural signatures of third-party punishment: evidence from penetrating traumatic brain injury.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2016Article
- Association between Genetic Variation in the Oxytocin Receptor Gene and Emotional Withdrawal, but not between Oxytocin Pathway Genes and Diagnosis in Psychotic Disorders.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2015Article
- An fMRI investigation of the effects of belief in free will on third-party punishment.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2014Article
- High levels of psychopathic traits alters moral choice but not moral judgment.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2013Article
- Characterization of the effects of oxytocin on fear recognition in patients with schizophrenia and in healthy controls.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2013Article
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Abstract
The neuropeptide oxytocin functions as a hormone and neurotransmitter and facilitates complex social cognition and approach behavior. Given that empathy is an essential ingredient for third-party decision-making in institutions of justice, we investigated whether exogenous oxytocin modulates empathy of an unaffected third-party toward offenders and victims of criminal offenses. Healthy male participants received intranasal oxytocin or placebo in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, between-subjects design. Participants were given a set of legal vignettes that described an event during which an offender engaged in criminal offenses against victims. As an unaffected third-party, participants were asked to rate those criminal offenses on the degree to which the offender deserved punishment and how much harm was inflicted on the victim. Exogenous oxytocin selectively increased third-party decision-makers' perceptions of harm for victims but not the desire to punish offenders of criminal offenses. We argue that oxytocin promoted empathic concern for the victim, which in turn increased the tendency for prosocial approach behavior regarding the interpersonal relationship between an unaffected third-party and a fictional victim in the criminal scenarios. Future research should explore the context- and person-dependent nature of exogenous oxytocin in individuals with antisocial personality disorder and psychopathy, in whom deficits in empathy feature prominently.
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