An integrated framework for the role of oxytocin in multistage social decision‐making
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Interest in the effects of oxytocin on social behavior has persisted even as an overarching theory describing these effects has remained largely elusive. Some of the earliest studies on the effects of oxytocin on social decision‐making indicated that oxytocin might enhance prosocial actions directed toward others. This led to development of the prosocial hypothesis, which stipulates that oxytocin specifically enhances prosocial choices. However, further work indicated that oxytocin administration could elicit antisocial behaviors as well in certain social situations, highlighting the importance of context‐dependent effects. At least two prominent hypotheses have been used to explain these seemingly contradictory findings. The social salience hypothesis indicates that the effects of oxytocin can be conceptualized as a general increase in the salience of social stimuli in the environment. Distinctly, the approach/withdrawal hypothesis stipulates that oxytocin enhances approach behaviors and decreases withdrawal behaviors. These phenomenologically motivated hypotheses regarding the effects of oxytocin on social behavior have created controversies in the field. In this review, we present a multistage framework of social decision‐making designed to unify these disparate theories in a process common to all social decisions. We conceptualize this process as involving multiple distinct computational steps, including sensory input, sensory perception, valuation, decision formulation, and behavioral output. Iteratively, these steps generate social behaviors, and oxytocin could be acting on any of these steps to exert its effects. In support of this framework, we examine both behavioral and neural evidence across rodents, non‐human primates, and humans, determining at what point in our multistage framework oxytocin could be eliciting its socially relevant effects. Finally, we postulate based on our framework that the prosocial, social salience, and approach/withdrawal hypotheses may not be mutually exclusive and could explain the influence of oxytocin on social behavior to different extents depending on context.
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OXT acting at OXTR in the NBM could modulate the activity of an extensive network of brain areas and influence social behavioral processes like social visual attention, gaze direction, and social decision making.
“Based on this connectivity of the NBM, we and others have postulated that OXT acting at OXTR in the NBM could modulate the activity of an extensive network of brain areas (which may themselves lack OXTR) and influence social behavioral processes like social visual attention, gaze direction, and social decision making38,39,64,65.”
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Intranasal oxytocin selectively attenuates rhesus monkeys’ attention to negative facial expressions
Parr, L. A., Modi, M., Siebert, E., & Young, L. J. (2013) · Psychoneuroendocrinology · doi:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2013.02.011 · Cited by 124 · see citing works
Oxytocin in the Amygdala Facilitates Maternal Aggression
Ferris, C. F., FOOTE, K. B., Meltser, H., PLENBY, M. G., Smith, K. L., & Insel, T. R. (1992) · Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.1992.tb34382.x · Cited by 123 · cited 1× · see citing works
“…assertions concerning context dependency, exogenous OT infused into the amygdala of golden hamsters has been shown to increasematernal aggression (Ferris et al., 1992), and OT release has been found to correlate with maternal aggression behavior in lactating rats under a maternal defense test,…”
BackgroundOxytocin selectively facilitates recognition of positive sex and relationship words.
Unkelbach, C., Guastella, A. J., & Forgas, J. P. (2008) · Psychological Science · doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02206.x · Cited by 122 · cited 1× · see citing works
“Finally, as mentioned in the previous section, work across humans and nonhuman primates indicates that the effects of OT are likely valencespecific (Chang et al., 2012; Ebitz et al., 2013; Evans et al., 2010; Landman et al., 2014; Marsh et al., 2010; Unkelbach et al., 2008).”
BackgroundDoes oxytocin influence the early detection of angry and happy faces?
Guastella, A. J., Carson, D. S., Dadds, M. R., Mitchell, P. B., & Cox, R. E. (2008) · Psychoneuroendocrinology · doi:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2008.09.001 · Cited by 114 · see citing works
Impact of prosocial neuropeptides on human brain function
MEYERLINDENBERG, A. (2008) · Progress in Brain Research · doi:10.1016/s0079-6123(08)00436-6 · Cited by 109 · cited 2× · see citing works
“These include the prosocial hypothesis (Macdonald & Macdonald, 2010; Meyer-Lindenberg, 2008), which states that OT increases positive social behaviors such as trust and altruism, the social salience hypothesis (Shamay-Tsoory & Abu-Akel, 2016), which states that OT instead seems to enhance the…”
BackgroundSong, Z., Borland, J. M., Larkin, T. E., O’Malley, M., & Albers, H. E. (2016) · Psychoneuroendocrinology · doi:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2016.09.001 · Cited by 101 · see citing works
Oxytocin decreases aversion to angry faces in an associative learning task
Evans, S., Shergill, S. S., & Averbeck, B. B. (2010) · Neuropsychopharmacology · doi:10.1038/npp.2010.110 · Cited by 97 · cited 1× · see citing works
“Finally, as mentioned in the previous section, work across humans and nonhuman primates indicates that the effects of OT are likely valencespecific (Chang et al., 2012; Ebitz et al., 2013; Evans et al., 2010; Landman et al., 2014; Marsh et al., 2010; Unkelbach et al., 2008).”
BackgroundSelective influences of oxytocin on the evaluative processing of social stimuli
Norman, G. J., Cacioppo, J. T., Morris, J. S., Karelina, K., Malarkey, W. B., DeVries, A. C., & Berntson, G. G. (2011) · Journal of Psychopharmacology · doi:10.1177/0269881110367452 · Cited by 92 · cited 2× · see citing works
“…this version of the hypothesis is not consistent with all past studies, including those that suggest thatOT enhancesmemory for faces but not nonsocial objects (Rimmele, Hediger, Heinrichs, & Klaver, 2009) and affects arousal ratings for pictures of humans but not animals (Norman et al., 2011).”
ResultEllenbogen, M. A., Linnen, A., Grumet, R., Cardoso, C., & Joober, R. (2012) · Psychophysiology · doi:10.1111/j.1469-8986.2011.01278.x · Cited by 82 · see citing works
Oxytocin enhances attention to the eye region in rhesus monkeys
Dal Monte, O., Noble, P. L., Costa, V. D., & Averbeck, B. B. (2014) · Frontiers in Neuroscience · doi:10.3389/fnins.2014.00041 · Cited by 80 · cited 1× · see citing works
“…numerous studies have indicated that OT specifically enhances attention to the eyes and often reduces attention to areas such as the mouth (Dal Monte et al., 2014, 2017; Guastella et al., 2008), which is at odds with the notion that OT increases broad salience of social cues and seems to…”
BackgroundOxytocin: Prosocial Behavior, Social Salience, or Approach-Related Behavior?
Kemp, A. H., & Guastella, A. J. (2010) · Biological Psychiatry · doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2009.11.019 · Cited by 75 · cited 1× · see citing works
“…& Abu-Akel, 2016), which states that OT instead seems to enhance the salience of social cues more broadly, and the approach/withdrawal hypothesis (Harari-Dahan & Bernstein, 2014; Kemp & Guastella, 2010, 2011), which states that OT increases approach behaviors and decreases withdrawal behaviors.”
BackgroundOxytocin and the salience of social cues
Averbeck, B. B. (2010) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.1004892107 · Cited by 64 · cited 2× · see citing works
“Still, these findings have indicated the possibility of a modified form of the salience hypothesis, in which OT increases the salience of positive social cues and decreases the salience of negative social cues (Averbeck, 2010).”
BackgroundOxytocin under opioid antagonism leads to supralinear enhancement of social attention
Dal Monte, O., Piva, M., Anderson, K. M., Tringides, M., Holmes, A. J., & Chang, S. W. C. (2017) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.1702725114 · Cited by 55 · cited 4× · see citing works
“Using a novel gaze interaction paradigm in rhesus macaques (Dal Monte, Piva, Morris, & Chang, 2016), the authors of this study explored the potential interaction between the OT and opioid systems in boosting social attention (Dal Monte et al., 2017).”
BackgroundMethodResultInfluentialSelf-citationJolly, C., Rousseau, K., Prézeau, L., Vol, C., Tomkiewicz, J., Dufour, S., & Pasqualini, C. (2016) · Journal of Neuroendocrinology · doi:10.1111/jne.12411 · Cited by 54 · see citing works
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Effect of distracting faces on visual selective attention in the monkey
Landman, R., Sharma, J., Sur, M., & Desimone, R. (2014) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.1420167111 · Cited by 43 · cited 5× · see citing works
“Finally, as mentioned in the previous section, work across humans and nonhuman primates indicates that the effects of OT are likely valencespecific (Chang et al., 2012; Ebitz et al., 2013; Evans et al., 2010; Landman et al., 2014; Marsh et al., 2010; Unkelbach et al., 2008).”
BackgroundInfluentialLive interaction distinctively shapes social gaze dynamics in rhesus macaques
Monte, O. D., Piva, M., Morris, J. A., & Chang, S. W. C. (2016) · Journal of Neurophysiology · doi:10.1152/jn.00442.2016 · Cited by 33 · see citing works
Self-citationOxytocin Fails to Recruit Serotonergic Neurotransmission in the Autistic Brain
Lefèvre, A., Mottolese, R., Redouté, J., Costes, N., Bars, D. L., Geoffray, M., Leboyer, M., & Angela Sirigu, B. (2017) · Cerebral Cortex · doi:10.1093/cercor/bhx272 · Cited by 30 · cited 1× · see citing works
“Specifically, OT has been found tomodulate serotonin binding potential in healthy participants, although this effect is absent when OT is administered to ASD patients (Lefevre et al., 2017).”
BackgroundThe Relation of Chalcedony to the Other Forms of Silica
Washburn, E. W., & Navias, L. (1922) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.8.1.1 · Cited by 19 · see citing works
Madrid, J. E., Oztan, O., Sclafani, V., Rosso, L. A. D., Calonder, L. A., Chun, K., Capitanio, J. P., Garner, J. P., & Parker, K. J. (2017) · Scientific Reports · doi:10.1038/s41598-017-13109-5 · Cited by 17 · cited 1× · see citing works
“A recent study further indicated that facial recognition ability in male infant macaques correlates with OT levels in cerebrospinal fluid later in life (Madrid et al., 2017).”
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Prefrontal–amygdala circuits in social decision-making
Gangopadhyay, P., Chawla, M., Monte, O. D., & Chang, S. W. C. (2020) · Nature Neuroscience · doi:10.1038/s41593-020-00738-9 · Cited by 247 · see citing works
Self-citationSocial bonds facilitate cooperative resource sharing in wild chimpanzees
Samuni, L., Preis, A., Mielke, A., Deschner, T., Wittig, R. M., & Crockford, C. (2018) · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rspb.2018.1643 · Cited by 143 · see citing works
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Oxytocin levels tend to be lower in autistic children: A meta-analysis of 31 studies
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“…recognition, social memory, and reward through modulation of dopaminergic pathways, as well as by reducing anxiety and stress by dampening amygdala activity and the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis (Bethlehem et al., 2014; Hurlemann & Grinevich, 2018; Piva & Chang, 2018; Uvnäs-Moberg, 1998).”
BackgroundRole of oxytocin in the control of stress and food intake
Onaka, T., & Takayanagi, Y. (2019) · Journal of Neuroendocrinology · doi:10.1111/jne.12700 · Cited by 98 · see citing works
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“In the remainder of this section, we examine the evidence for the role of oxytocin on each of these parameters underlying participation in conflict (also see [68,74 – 77]) (box 2).”
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Differences in how macaques monitor others: Does serotonin play a central role?
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“Oxytocin has been widely implicated in social cognition, influencing multiple stages of social processing, including social attention and valuation (Piva & Chang, 2018).”
Self-citationIntranasal oxytocin in rhesus monkeys alters brain networks that detect social salience and reward
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“…modulates social behavior in primates and whether the effects are purely centrally mediated, one of the main hypotheses to emerge is that IN-OT influences the salience of social stimuli and their rewarding quality (Bartz, Zaki, Bolger, & Ochsner, 2011; Leng & Ludwig, 2016; Piva & Chang, 2018).”
BackgroundPolk, R. J., Horta, M., Lin, T., Porges, E. C., Ojeda, M., Nazarloo, H. P., Carter, C. S., & Ebner, N. C. (2022) · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rstb.2021.0048 · Cited by 11 · see citing works
“(ii) Crystallized and fluid cognition Participants completed the NIH Toolbox Cognition Battery [50,83], which comprises seven measures categorized into two cognitive domains: crystallized cognition (Picture Vocabulary Test, Oral Reading Recognition Test) and fluid cognition (Dimensional Change Card Sort Test, Flanker…”
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Self-citationInterpersonal touch interventions for patients in intensive care: A design‐oriented realist review
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“…et al. (2017), Walker et al. (2017) Social support network OT may promote prosocial effects including trust, emotional recognition and altruism via action on multiple stages of social decision-making (Piva & Chang, 2018) Prosocial behaviours, increased psychosocial support Construction Principle 2.”
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Oxytocin modulates neural activity during early perceptual salience attribution
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“However, this model did not take into consideration studies using electroencephalography (EEG), a technique with a high temporal resolution, well suited to disentangle the neural processing subjacent to salience attribution processes (Pehlivanoglu et al., 2020).”
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“…may account for the pattern of results found in the in-group results, but cannot account for our out-group the familiarity of the demonstrator, suggesting that OXT has social effects beyond facilitating prosocial behavior (Anacker and Beery 2013 ; Olff et al. 2013; Love 2014; Piva and Chang 2018).”
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- Authors
- Piva, M., & Chang, S. W. C.
- Affiliations
- Yale University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Piva, Matthew
- Venue
- American Journal of Primatology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2018-01-19
- Volume
- 80
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- e22735-e22735
- ISSN
- 0275-2565 (ISSN-L)
- 1098-2345
- PMC
- PMC6053333
- OpenAlex
- W2790621696
- Cited by
- 38
- References
- 82
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 6
- FWCI
- 0.87
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- American Journal of Primatology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (PGSD3‐471313‐2015)
- National Institute of Mental Health (R00MH099093, R01MH110750, R21MH107853)
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (FG‐2015‐66028)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Keywords
- oxytocin, social decision-making, prosocial behavior, antisocial behavior, social behavior, context sensitivity, rodents, non-human primates, human
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Behavior, Animal, Cognition, Decision Making, Humans, Oxytocin, Primates, Rodentia, Social Behavior
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