ArticleFrontiers in behavioral neuroscience2022
Oxytocin Release Increases With Age and Is Associated With Life Satisfaction and Prosocial Behaviors.
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- Differential role of anterior and posterior pituitary lobes in healthy aging and perceived stress.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Virtual Reality Education Increases Neurologic Immersion and Empathy in Nursing Students.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2025Article
- Interplay of plasma Oxytocin and oxytocin receptor gene methylation levels on empathy in older adults.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- How factors of the therapeutic alliance interact with oxytocin neurotransmission in psychotherapy.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Review
- Exploring the Psychological and Physiological Effects of Operating a Telenoid: The Preliminary Assessment of a Minimal Humanoid Robot for Mediated Communication.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Grandmotherhood is associated with reduced OXTR DNA methylation.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2024Article
- Older adults are relatively more susceptible to impulsive social influence than young adults.Communications psychology · 2024Article
- Oxytocin as a physiological correlate of dyadic music therapy relationships - a randomized crossover pilot study.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2024Article
- Emotion Regulation in Couples Across Adulthood.Annual review of developmental psychology · 2023Article
- The evolved nest, oxytocin functioning, and prosocial development.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Review
- The relationship between oxytocin levels with empathy and breastfeeding intention in female medical students: A cross-sectional study.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2022Article
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- Why people keep watching: neurophysiologic immersion during video consumption increases viewing time and influences behavior.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2022Article
- Dissecting social decision-making: A spotlight on oxytocinergic transmission.Frontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2022Review
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Abstract
Helping behaviors and life satisfaction generally increase after middle-age. Identifying the neural substrates of prosocial behaviors in older adults may offer additional insights into these changes over the lifespan. The present study examines the endogenous release of the neuromodulator oxytocin (OT) in participants aged 18-99 and its relationship to prosocial behaviors. OT has been shown to influence trust, altruism, charity, and generosity, yet the effect of age on OT release has not been well-established. Blood samples before and after a video stimulus were obtained from 103 participants in order to examine the impact of OT on prosocial behaviors. We found that OT release following a social prime increased with age (
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