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Oxytocin attenuates feelings of hostility depending on emotional context and individuals' characteristics

Overview of attention for article published in Scientific Reports, April 2012
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Title
Oxytocin attenuates feelings of hostility depending on emotional context and individuals' characteristics
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Scientific Reports, April 2012
DOI 10.1038/srep00384
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Tetsu Hirosawa, Mitsuru Kikuchi, Haruhiro Higashida, Eiichi Okumura, Sanae Ueno, Kiyomi Shitamichi, Yuko Yoshimura, Toshio Munesue, Tsunehisa Tsubokawa, Yasuhiro Haruta, Hideo Nakatani, Takanori Hashimoto, Yoshio Minabe

Abstract

In humans, oxytocin (OT) enhances prosocial behaviour. However, it is still unclear how the prosocial effects of OT are modulated by emotional features and/or individuals' characteristics. In a placebo-controlled design, we tested 20 healthy male volunteers to investigate these behavioural and neurophysiological modulations using magnetoencephalography. As an index of the individuals' characteristics, we used the empathy quotient (EQ), the autism spectrum quotient (AQ), and the systemising quotient (SQ). Only during the perception of another person's angry face was a higher SQ a significant predictor of OT-induced prosocial change, both in the behavioural and neurophysiological indicators. In addition, a lower EQ was only a significant predictor of OT-induced prosocial changes in the neurophysiological indicators during the perception of angry faces. Both on the behavioural and the neurophysiological level, the effects of OT were specific for anger and correlated with a higher SQ.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Japan 4 5%
France 1 1%
Indonesia 1 1%
Italy 1 1%
United States 1 1%
Unknown 77 91%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 21 25%
Student > Master 14 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 7%
Professor 6 7%
Other 18 21%
Unknown 8 9%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 29 34%
Medicine and Dentistry 16 19%
Neuroscience 11 13%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 9 11%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 3 4%
Other 6 7%
Unknown 11 13%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 08 January 2024.
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#3,186,096
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#27,108
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#19,737
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Outputs of similar age from Scientific Reports
#32
of 131 outputs
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