ArticleFrontiers in human neuroscience2012
The other side of the coin: oxytocin decreases the adherence to fairness norms.
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- Oxytocin and the Neurobiology of Prosocial Behavior.The Neuroscientist : a review journal bringing neurobiology, neurology and psychiatry · 2021Review
- Emotionality vs. Other Biobehavioural Traits: A Look at Neurochemical Biomarkers for Their Differentiation.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Review
- Infection threat shapes our social instincts.Behavioral ecology and sociobiology · 2021Review
- Oxytocin increases emotional theory of mind, but only for low socioeconomic status individuals.Heliyon · 2020Article
- Oxytocin modulates social value representations in the amygdala.Nature neuroscience · 2019Article
- Interactive effects of OXTR and GAD1 on envy-associated behaviors and neural responses.PloS one · 2019Article
- Prosocial Behavior and Depression: a Case for Developmental Gender Differences.Current behavioral neuroscience reports · 2017Article
- Inequity aversion strategies between marmosets are influenced by partner familiarity and sex but not oxytocin.Animal behaviour · 2016Article
- Adult separation anxiety in treatment nonresponders with anxiety disorders: delineation of the syndrome and exploration of attachment-based psychotherapy and biomarkers.Comprehensive psychiatry · 2016Article
- The Effect of Oxytocin on Third-Party Altruistic Decisions in Unfair Situations: An fMRI Study.Scientific reports · 2016Article
- Abnormal emotion processing, but intact fairness and intentionality considerations during social decision-making in schizophrenia.Frontiers in psychology · 2015Article
- Oxytocin and Vasopressin Receptor Gene Polymorphisms: Role in Social and Psychiatric Traits.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2015Review
- Opposing effects of oxytocin on moral judgment in males and females.Human brain mapping · 2014Article
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Abstract
Oxytocin (OXT) has been implicated in prosocial behaviors such as trust and generosity. Yet, these effects appear to strongly depend on characteristics of the situation and the people with whom we interact or make decisions. Norms and rules can facilitate and guide our actions, with fairness being a particularly salient and fundamental norm. The current study investigated the effects of intranasal OXT administration on fairness considerations in social decision-making in a double-blind, placebo-controlled within-subject design. After having received 24 IU of OXT or placebo (PLC), participants completed a one-shot Dictator Game (DG) and played the role of the responder in a modified version of the Ultimatum Game (UG), in which an unfair offer of eight coins for the proposer and two coins for the responder is paired with either a fair-(5:5) or no-alternative (8:2). Rejection rates were higher when a fair alternative had been available than when there was no alternative to an unfair offer. Importantly, OXT did not de-or increase rejection rates overall, but reduced the sensitivity to contextual fairness, i.e., the context of alternatives in which an offer was made. As dictators, participants allocated less coins to the recipient when given OXT than when given PLC, indicating a decline in generosity. These results suggest that OXT decreases the adherence to fairness norms in social settings where others are likely to be perceived as not belonging to one's ingroup. While our findings do not support the prosocial conception of OXT, they corroborate recent ideas that the effects of OXT are more nuanced than assumed in the past.
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