Oxytocin attenuates feelings of hostility depending on emotional context and individuals' characteristics

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Hirosawa, Tetsu ^a   Kikuchi, Mitsuru ^a   Higashida, Haruhiro ^a   Okumura, Eiichi ^b   Ueno, Sanae ^a   Shitamichi, Kiyomi ^a   Yoshimura, Yuko ^a   Munesue, Toshio ^a   Tsubokawa, Tsunehisa ^a   Haruta, Yasuhiro ^b   Nakatani, Hideo ^a   Hashimoto, Takanori ^a   Minabe, Yoshio ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

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EID: 84860471872     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00384     Document Type: Article

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