Oxytocin makes people trusting, not gullible
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Regarding trust, oxytocin effects are moderated by characteristics of the subject (sex and attachment type) and by characteristics of the target (perceived level of reliability).
“Regarding trust, it has been shown that OT effects are moderated by the characteristics of the subject (i.e. sex [21] and attachment type [30]) and by those of the target (i.e. its perceived level of reliability [8]).”
From Failed Replication of Oxytocin Effects on Trust: The Envelope Task Case (2015) · cites this paper as [8]
Inhaled oxytocin increases sensitivity to the social information of co-players in a social dilemma game.
“Additionally, inhaled OT increases sensitivity to the social information of co-players in a social dilemma game (Declerck et al., 2010, 2013; Mikolajczak et al., 2010; Bartz et al., 2011;)”
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“its perceived level of reliability [8]).”
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- Authors
- Mikolajczak, M., Gross, J. J., Lane, A., Corneille, O., de Timary, P., & Luminet, O.
- Affiliations
- UCLouvain (BE)
- Stanford University (US)
- Université catholique de Louvain
- Corresponding author
- Mikolajczak, Moïra
- Venue
- Psychological Science
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2010-07-14
- Volume
- 21
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 1072-1074
- ISSN
- 0956-7976 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-9280
- OpenAlex
- W1980440339
- Cited by
- 216
- References
- 27
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- FWCI
- 22.81
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- hdl.handle.net
- Locations
- Psychological Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Digital Access to Libraries (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), l'Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Université Saint-Louis (USL-B)) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Dépôt institutionnel de l'Université libre de Bruxelles (Université Libre de Bruxelles) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Psychology of Social Influence
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Deception detection and forensic psychology
- Keywords
- oxytocin, trust, gullibility, social cognition
- MeSH terms
- Games, Experimental, Humans, Male, Oxytocin, Social Behavior, Trust, Young Adult
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