Oxytocin intensifies the mortality salience effect: Novel evidence for the social salience model of oxytocin.
Horm Behav
; 129: 104920, 2021 03.
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| ID: mdl-33428924
ABSTRACT
Oxytocin plays an important role in human responses to threat processing. Few studies have directly examined the effects of oxytocin on our response to death-related stimuli. In the current study, 63 participants intranasally received either 32 IU of oxytocin or a placebo and thereafter completed a visual dot-probe task consisting of death-related and non-death related images. The results indicated that oxytocin enhanced participants' vigilance toward death-related images as well as increased their anxiety about and fear of death. Overall, oxytocin amplifies the defensive responses to a mortality threat, supporting the social salience model of oxytocin.
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Transtornos de Ansiedade
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Ocitocina
Tipo de estudo:
Clinical_trials
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Humans
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En
Ano de publicação:
2021
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Article