Oxytocin decreases aversion to angry faces in an associative learning task

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 35, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 2502-2509

  Evans, Simon ^a   Shergill, Sukhwinder S ^b   Averbeck, Bruno B ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

behavior; computational neuroscience; decision making; emotion; oxytocin

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN; PLACEBO;

ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; AVERSION; DECISION MAKING; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING;

ADULT; ANGER; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OXYTOCIN; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 78149470325     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2010.110     Document Type: Article

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