Trial reportSocial cognitive and affective neuroscience2013
Oxytocin facilitates accurate perception of competition in men and kinship in women.
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44 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 131 citations in OpenAlex.
- The Role of Oxytocin in Antisocial Personality Disorders: A Systematic Review of the Literature.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2019Pooled it
- Effects of exogenous oxytocin and estradiol on resting-state functional connectivity in women and men.Scientific reports · 2023Trial
- Oxytocin increases physiological linkage during group therapy for methamphetamine use disorder: a randomized clinical trial.Scientific reports · 2021Trial
- Kinetics of oxytocin effects on amygdala and striatal reactivity vary between women and men.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2020Trial
- Enhancing Placebo Effects in Somatic Symptoms Through Oxytocin.Psychosomatic medicine · 2018Trial
- Oxytocin-enforced norm compliance reduces xenophobic outgroup rejection.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2017Trial
- Vasopressin Boosts Placebo Analgesic Effects in Women: A Randomized Trial.Biological psychiatry · 2016Trial
- Intranasal administration of oxytocin increases compassion toward women.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2015Trial
- Oxytocin and vasopressin modulate risk-taking.Physiology & behavior · 2015Trial
- A direct examination of the effect of intranasal administration of oxytocin on approach-avoidance motor responses to emotional stimuli.PloS one · 2013Trial
- Oxytocin-induced modulation of explicit and implicit visual perspective taking.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- The Role of Oxytocin and Sex in Analgesic Placebo-Response: Exploratory Analysis from a Sham Randomized Clinical Trial in Chronic Back-Pain Patients.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Higher oxytocin concentrations occur in subjects who build affiliative relationships with companion robots.iScience · 2023Article
- Exploring a Possible Interplay between Schizophrenia, Oxytocin, and Estrogens: A Narrative Review.Brain sciences · 2023Review
- Oxytocin and the Punitive Hub-Dynamic Spread of Cooperation in Human Social Networks.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2022Article
- Parochial cooperation in wild chimpanzees: a model to explain the evolution of parochial altruism.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Review
- Depressive symptoms and social context modulate oxytocin's effect on negative memory recall.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2021Article
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- Links Between the Neurobiology of Oxytocin and Human Musicality.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2020Review
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Abstract
Despite the dominant role of the hormone oxytocin (OT) in social behavior, little is known about the role of OT in the perception of social relationships. Furthermore, it is unclear whether there are sex differences in the way that OT affects social perception. Here, we employed a double-blind, placebo-controlled crossover design to investigate the effect of OT on accurate social perception. Following treatment, 62 participants completed the Interpersonal Perception Task, a method of assessing the accuracy of social judgments that requires identification of the relationship between people interacting in real life video clips divided into three categories: kinship, intimacy and competition. The findings suggest that OT had a general effect on improving accurate perception of social interactions. Furthermore, we show that OT also involves sex-specific characteristics. An interaction between treatment, task category and sex indicated that OT had a selective effect on improving kinship recognition in women, but not in men, whereas men's performance was improved following OT only for competition recognition. It is concluded that the gender-specific findings reported here may point to some biosocial differences in the effect of OT which may be expressed in women's tendency for communal and familial social behavior as opposed to men's tendency for competitive social behavior.
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