Oxytocin modulates social distance between males and females

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 46, 2012, Pages 16074-16079

  Scheele, Dirk ^a   Striepens, Nadine ^a   Güntürkün, Onur ^b   Deutschländer, Sandra ^a   Maier, Wolfgang ^a,d   Kendrick, Keith M ^c   Hurlemann, René ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^d GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES DZNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN;

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; COMFORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MONOGAMY; MOOD; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONALITY; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRANASAL; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; COHORT STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MOTION; OXYTOCIN; PAIR BOND; PERSONALITY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84869036597     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2755-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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