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Oxytocin and human social behaviour

Campbell, A.

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A. Campbell



Abstract

Despite a general consensus that oxytocin (OT) has prosocial effects, there is no clear agreement on how these effects are achieved. Human research on OT is reviewed under three broad research initiatives: attachment and trust, social memory, and fear reduction. As an organizing perspective for scholars’ current knowledge, a tentative model of the causes and effects of alterations in OT level is proposed. The model must remain provisional until conceptual and methodological problems are addressed that arise from a failure to distinguish between traits and states, differing research paradigms used in relation to OT as an independent versus dependent variable, and the possibility that OT effects depend on the initial emotional state of the individual. Social and personality psychologists have important roles to play in developing more rigorous and creative research designs.

Citation

Campbell, A. (2010). Oxytocin and human social behaviour. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 14(3), 281-295. https://doi.org/10.1177/1088868310363594

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Aug 1, 2010
Deposit Date Jan 26, 2012
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Personality and Social Psychology Review
Print ISSN 1088-8683
Electronic ISSN 1532-7957
Publisher SAGE Publications
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 14
Issue 3
Pages 281-295
DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/1088868310363594
Keywords Social neuroscience, Evolutionary psychology, Interpersonal processes.

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