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Effects of oxytocin and prosocial behavior on brain responses to direct and vicariously experienced pain.
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In this study, we tested the validity of 2 popular assumptions about empathy: (a) empathy can be enhanced by oxytocin, a neuropeptide known to be crucial in affiliative behavior, and (b) individual differences in prosocial behavior are positively associated with empathic brain responses. To do so, we measured brain activity in a double-blind placebo-controlled study of 20 male participants either receiving painful stimulation to their own hand (self condition) or observing their female partner receiving painful stimulation to her hand (other condition). Prosocial behavior was measured using a monetary economic interaction game with which participants classified as prosocial (N = 12) or selfish (N = 6), depending on whether they cooperated with another player. Empathy-relevant brain activation (anterior insula) was neither enhanced by oxytocin nor positively associated with prosocial behavior. However, oxytocin reduced amygdala activation when participants received painful stimulation themselves (in the nonsocial condition). Surprisingly, this effect was driven by "selfish" participants. The results suggest that selfish individuals may not be as rational and unemotional as usually suggested, their actions being determined by their feeling anxious rather than by reason.
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“To our knowledge, there is little neuroimaging work in females focusing on oxytocin and its influence on neural systems for pain processing, as most published work is exclusively on males and/or is focused on empathy for pain.54, 55, 56, 57”
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“Singer and colleagues (2008) found that OXT OXYTOCIN, EMPATHY AND EYE-GAZE 5 neither enhanced subjective empathy nor increased activation in empathy-relevant brain areas such as the anterior insula (AI) and anterior cingulate cortex (ACC).”
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“neuroimaging evidence suggests that the administration of OXT inhibits amygdala activation (Domes et al., 2007b;Kirsch et al., 2005;Singer et al., 2008)”
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“Most reports have not demonstrated any specific antinociceptive properties for oxytocin 23, 24, 25, including a phase 1 open‐label trial using intrathecal administration 26.”
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“However, double‐blind, placebo‐controlled studies have produced mixed results.”
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“Experimental studies on healthy volunteers using acute noxious electrical, contact heat and cold‐pressor stimuli have produced further conflicting results.”
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“In addition, intranasal oxytocin also dampened the central fear response by lowering amygdala activity [44-46] and potentially enhancing fear regulation by increasing top-down control of the prefrontal cortex over the amygdala [47].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Singer, T., Snozzi, R., Bird, G., Petrovic, P., Silani, G., Heinrichs, M., & Dolan, R. J.
- Affiliations
- University of Zurich (CH)
- University College London (GB)
- Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging (GB)
- Venue
- Emotion
- Published
- 2008-12
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 781-791
- ISSN
- 1528-3542 (ISSN-L)
- 1931-1516
- PMC
- PMC2672051
- OpenAlex
- W2097146434
- Cited by
- 248
- References
- 73
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 16 · 2019: 18 · 2018: 14 · 2017: 15 · 2016: 20 · 2015: 24 · 2014: 22 · 2013: 25 · 2012: 19
- FWCI
- 17.39
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Locations
- Emotion (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Research Bank (Australian Catholic University) (submittedVersion)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- Max Planck Digital Library (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Max Planck Digital Library (submittedVersion)
- FreiDok plus (Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg) (submittedVersion)
- Research Portal (King's College London) (submittedVersion)
- MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion)
- Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Endocrine and Autonomic Systems › Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Action Observation and Synchronization
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Keywords
- oxytocin, empathy, prosocial behavior, vicarious pain, anterior insula, amygdala, individual differences, selfishness, cooperation, anxiety, pain perception
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Amygdala, Attitude to Health, Double-Blind Method, Electrodes, Hand, Humans, Male, Oxytocics, Oxytocin, Pain, Surveys and Questionnaires, Social Behavior, Young Adult
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