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The Impact of a Single Administration of Intranasal Oxytocin on the Recognition of Basic Emotions in Humans: A Meta-Analysis
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Many studies have highlighted the potential of oxytocin (OT) to enhance facial affect recognition in healthy humans. However, inconsistencies have emerged with regard to the influence of OT on the recognition of specific emotional expressions (happy, angry, fear, surprise, disgust, and sadness). In this study, we conducted a meta-analysis of seven studies comprising 381 research participants (71 females) examining responses to the basic emotion types to assess whether OT enhances the recognition of emotion from human faces and whether this was influenced by the emotion expression and exposure time of the face. Results showed that intranasal OT administration enhances emotion recognition of faces overall, with a Hedges g effect size of 0.29. When analysis was restricted to facial expression types, significant effects of OT on recognition accuracy were specifically found for the recognition of happy and fear faces. We also found that effect sizes increased to moderate when exposure time of the photograph was restricted to early phase recognition (< 300 ms) for happy and angry faces, or later phase recognition for fear faces (> 300 ms). The results of the meta-analysis further suggest that OT has potential as a treatment to improve the recognition of emotion in faces, allowing individuals to improve their insight into the intentions, desires, and mental states of others.
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“These studies yielded summarized effect sizes ranging from d=0.21 to d=0.48.”
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“To date three meta-analyses of the effects of IN-OT on human behavior have been published.”
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“Shahrestani et al. conducted a meta-analysis of studies examining the effect of OT on recognition of basic emotions (7 effect sizes, total N = 381)(10).”
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“The meta-analyses mentioned in this paper all tested for evidence of publication bias in the IN-OT literature, with mixed results (9–11).”
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“A few previous meta-analytic reviews have found that intranasal oxytocin improves recognition of anger and happiness, and increases ingroup trust among healthy individuals with small effect sizes (Shahrestani et al., 2013;van Ijzendoorn and Bakermans-Kranenburg, 2012).”
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“However, these results are in line with a previous meta-analysis, which also found that intranasal oxytocin improved early recognition of angry faces and late recognition of fearful faces among healthy individuals (Shahrestani et al., 2013).”
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“In humans, alterations in amygdala responses to positive and negative emotions have been reported in neuropsychiatric conditions, such as autism and schizophrenia [72,73], in association with OXTR genetic variants [41,102] or following intranasal OXT [33,36,38,103].”
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“we have demonstrated that emotion discrimination abilities in mice are dependent on the OXT system”
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“OXT has been associated with social cognitive functions, such as emotion recognition [8-10, 33-36, 38, 39].”
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“This interpretation is further supported by findings from a previous meta-analysis that found that a single dose of intranasal oxytocin improved early detection of anger and late detection of fear in healthy humans (Shahrestani et al., 2013).”
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“OXT has been shown to increase social cognition in the face of both positive and negative stimuli (Shahrestani et al, 2013).”
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“However, these studies predominantly used emotional faces to investigate OT’s actions on AA behavior and were thus unable to determine whether observed effects were driven by its well-established actions on increased attention and attraction to faces per se (Theodoridou et al., 2009; Domes et al., 2013; Shahrestani et al., 2013; Striepens et al., 2014; Xu et al., 2015).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Shahrestani, S., Kemp, A. H., & Guastella, A. J.
- Affiliations
- The University of Sydney (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Kemp, Andrew H
- Guastella, Adam J
- Venue
- Neuropsychopharmacology
- Published
- 2013-04-10
- Volume
- 38
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 1929-1936
- ISSN
- 0893-133X (ISSN-L)
- 1740-634X
- PMC
- PMC3746698
- OpenAlex
- W1965231812
- Cited by
- 283
- References
- 56
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 3.50
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Neuropsychopharmacology (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Medical Research Council
- National Health and Medical Research Council (LP110100513, 571101)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Endocrine and Autonomic Systems › Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Sensory Systems › Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
- Keywords
- oxytocin, intranasal administration, facial emotion recognition, basic emotions, happy faces, fearful faces, angry faces, exposure time, social cognition
- MeSH terms
- Administration, Intranasal, Emotions, Facial Expression, Humans, Neuropeptides, Oxytocin, Photic Stimulation, Time Factors, Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic, Recognition, Psychology
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