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Oxytocin Shapes the Neural Circuitry of Trust and Trust Adaptation in Humans
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Trust and betrayal of trust are ubiquitous in human societies. Recent behavioral evidence shows that the neuropeptide oxytocin increases trust among humans, thus offering a unique chance of gaining a deeper understanding of the neural mechanisms underlying trust and the adaptation to breach of trust. We examined the neural circuitry of trusting behavior by combining the intranasal, double-blind, administration of oxytocin with fMRI. We find that subjects in the oxytocin group show no change in their trusting behavior after they learned that their trust had been breached several times while subjects receiving placebo decrease their trust. This difference in trust adaptation is associated with a specific reduction in activation in the amygdala, the midbrain regions, and the dorsal striatum in subjects receiving oxytocin, suggesting that neural systems mediating fear processing (amygdala and midbrain regions) and behavioral adaptations to feedback information (dorsal striatum) modulate oxytocin's effect on trust. These findings may help to develop deeper insights into mental disorders such as social phobia and autism, which are characterized by persistent fear or avoidance of social interactions.
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“Functioning as both a neurotransmitter and a hormone, oxytocin's targets are widespread and include the hippocampus and the amygdala (10–12).”
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“We noticed that Kosfeld’s [1] seminal finding was not always replicated either. Indeed, Baumgartner et al. [7] found no significant effect of OT on the pre-betrayal trust game. More recently, two independent studies also failed to replicate Kosfeld’s findings [20] [21].”
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“adapted version of the well‐established trust game.[ 21 ]”
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“There is no doubt that oxytocin is implicated in the development of trust (10, 18), empathy, and prosociality (11), but these tendencies appear limited to individuals belonging to one's in-group (16, 17).”
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“Previous studies on amygdala responses to fearful faces and fearful/threatening scenes (14 -17, 30) and social risk (31) have also indicated that OXT may induce sex-dependent changes in amygdala activation to emotional stimuli.”
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“An earlier study by Baumgartner et al. (2008) reported that participants in a trust game tend to discount feedback information regarding their partner's unreciprocal behavior more so when they are given intranasal OT compared with a placebo.”
From The effect of oxytocin on cooperation in a prisoner's dilemma depends on the social context and a person's social value orientation (2014) · cites this paper as Baumgartner et al. (2008)
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“On the other hand, there are several reports that OT reduces social anxiety by attenuating the amygdala response to fearful social signals (Kirsch et al., 2005;Baumgartner et al., 2008).”
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“Intriguingly, intranasal application of OT has been shown to increase trusting behavior in humans [20], [21], identification of others' affective states [22] and amygdala responses to emotional faces [23].”
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“Consistent with this evidence, functional magnetic imaging (fMRI) studies with healthy volunteers have shown that intranasal OXT administration dampens amygdala reactivity to threatening facial expressions (Domes et al, 2007;Kirsch et al, 2005), and naturalistic social interactions (Baumgartner et al, 2008).”
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“In agreement, neuroimaging studies demonstrate that intranasal administration of oxytocin attenuates amygdala activation following stressful and fearful stimuli (Baumgartner et al., 2008; Domes et al., 2007; Kirsch et al., 2005; Labuschagne et al., 2010).”
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“attenuating activation of amygdala to social stimuli (Baumgartner et al, 2008;Domes et al, 2007a;Gamer et al, 2010;Kirsch et al, 2005)”
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“human studies have prevalently used acute administration of OXT in healthy subjects”
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“IN-OT increases trust by reducing the BOLD activity of amygdala and midbrain regions, neural systems that mediate fear processing (Baumgartner et al. 2008).”
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“Of the six studies that entered the meta-analysis in Nave et al.21 -in addition to the Kosfeld 8 et al. study -four studies had fictional partners [25][26][27][28] , one was completely devoid of human contact with other participants 29 , and participants' previous experience in a dictator game was likely to confound the decision to trust in the sixth study 30 .”
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“Human functional neuroimaging studies have shown that inhaling OT reduces BOLD (blood-oxygen-level dependent) activation in the amygdala when viewing or associating aversive social stimuli (Kirsch, 2005; Petrovic et al., 2008), during trust formation (Baumgartner et al., 2008), in response to pain (Singer et al., 2008), and in response to infant crying (Riem et al., 2011).”
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“Consistently, previous studies showed that OT reduced recognition of and affective responses to negative signals, and failed to change behavior after the receipt of negative information (i.e., social betrayal; ref. 17).”
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“Oxytocin, the hypothalamic neuropeptide important for social cognition and behavior, has been shown to promote prosocial approach, such as trust and cooperative behaviors (16, 21, 22, but also see ref. 23)”
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“Oxytocin, the hypothalamic neuropeptide important for social cognition and behavior, has been shown to promote prosocial approach, such as trust and cooperative behaviors (16, 21, 22, but also see ref. 23)”
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“subsequent neuroimaging work provided indications that the effects of exogenously administered OT on trust and trust adaptation were associated with reductions in neural activity of brain regions that are implicated in fear processing (amygdala and midbrain regions) (Baumgartner et al., 2008).”
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“Further research utilizing cooperative economic games has shown that the prior reputation of a partner alters striatum responses to reciprocated or non-reciprocated cooperation and influences decisions to cooperate or not 75–79.”
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“and some previous findings that OT-induced alterations on human social behavior are associated with increased activity in the striatum and AI (Baumgartner et al., 2008; Strathearn et al., 2009; Striepens et al., 2011; Yao et al., 2018).”
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“To conform with prior research showing that effects of oxytocin peak after ∼30–40 min (10, 16, 18), after 38–42 min, the computer switched to the experimental task (lasting 15–20 min).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Baumgartner, T., Heinrichs, M., Vonlanthen, A., Fischbacher, U., & Fehr, E.
- Affiliations
- University of Zurich (CH)
- Corresponding author
- Fehr, Ernst
- Venue
- Neuron
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2008-05
- Volume
- 58
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 639-650
- ISSN
- 0896-6273 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2102027817
- Cited by
- 1,258
- References
- 77
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- FWCI
- 112.42
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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- www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
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- doi.org/10.15223/policy-017 (stm-asf)
- doi.org/10.15223/policy-037 (stm-asf)
- doi.org/10.15223/policy-012 (stm-asf)
- doi.org/10.15223/policy-029 (stm-asf)
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- Locations
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- Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich) (acceptedVersion, other-oa)
- Research Bank (Australian Catholic University) (submittedVersion)
- Bern Open Repository and Information System (University of Bern) (submittedVersion)
- FreiDok plus (Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg) (submittedVersion)
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- Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich)
- Funders
- Universität Zürich (PP001-114788)
- Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Endocrine and Autonomic Systems › Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Sensory Systems › Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
- Keywords
- oxytocin, trust, betrayal of trust, amygdala, midbrain, dorsal striatum, fear processing, social cognition, social anxiety disorder, autism spectrum disorder
- MeSH terms
- Adaptation, Psychological, Adult, Analysis of Variance, Brain, Brain Mapping, Double-Blind Method, Games, Experimental, Humans, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Nerve Net, Oxygen, Oxytocin, Psychometrics, Surveys and Questionnaires, Reaction Time, Risk-Taking, Trust
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