Evaluating self- vs. other-owned objects: The modulatory role of oxytocin

Biological Psychology

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 179-184

  Wu, Yin ^a,b,c   van Dijk, Eric ^d   Zhou, Xiaolin ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Southeast University   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

ERP; Ownership; Oxytocin; Sustained positivity

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTIVATION; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT OWNERSHIP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRANASAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DIAGNOSTIC SELF EVALUATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; OWNERSHIP; OXYTOCIN; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84871525660     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: 18736246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2012.11.011     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. Bartz J.A., Zaki J., Bolger N., Ochsner K.N. Social effects of oxytocin in humans: context and person matter. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2011, 15:301-309.
2. Baumgartner T., Heinrichs M., Vonlanthen A., Fischbacher U., Fehr E. Oxytocin shapes the neural circuitry of trust and trust adaptation in humans. Neuron 2008, 58(4):639-650.
3. Beggan J.K. On the social nature of nonsocial perception: the mere ownership effect. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1992, 62(2):229-237.
4. Belk R.W. Possessions and the extended self. Journal of Consumer Research 1988, 15:139-168.
5. Briggs K.E., Martin F.H. Affective picture processing and motivational relevance: arousal and valence effects on ERPs in an oddball task. International Journal of Psychophysiology 2009, 72(3):299-306.
6. Carmon Z., Ariely D. Focusing on the forgone: how value can appear so different to buyers and sellers. Journal of Consumer Research 2000, 27:360-370.
7. De Dreu C.K.W., Greer L.L., Handgraaf M.J.J., Shalvi S., Van Kleef G.A., Baas M., et al. The neuropeptide oxytocin regulates parochial altruism in intergroup conflict among humans. Science 2010, 328(5984):1408-1411.
8. De Dreu C.K.W., Greer L.L., Van Kleef G.A., Shalvi S., Handgraaf M.J.J. Oxytocin promotes human ethnocentrism. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2011, 108(4):1262-1466.
9. Declerck C.H., Boone C., Kiyonari T. Oxytocin and cooperation under conditions of uncertainty: the modulating role of incentives and social information. Hormones and Behavior 2010, 57(3):368-374.
10. Domes G., Heinrichs M., Michel A., Berger C., Herpertz S.C. Oxytocin improves mind-reading in humans. Biological Psychiatry 2007, 61(6):731-733.
11. Fein S., Spencer S.J. Prejudice as self-image maintenance: affirming the self through derogating others. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1997, 73(1):31-44.
12. Gebauer J.E., Göritz A., Hofmann W., Sedikides C. Self-love or other-love? Explicit other-preference but implicit self-preference. PLoS One 2012, 7(7):e41789. 10.1371/journal.pone.0041789.
13. Gray H.M., Ambady N., Lowenthal W.T., Deldin P. P300 as an index of attention to self-relevant stimuli. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 2004, 40(2):216-224.
14. Greenwald A.G., Farnham S.D. Using the implicit association test to measure self-esteem and self-concept. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 2000, 79(6):1022-1038.
15. Harbaugh W., Krause K., Vesterlund L. Are adults better behaved than children? Age, experience, and the endowment effect. Economics Letters 2001, 70:175-181.
16. Hajcak G., MacNamara A., Olvet D.M. Event-related potentials, emotion, and emotion regulation: an integrative review. Developmental Neuropsychology 2010, 35(2):129-155.
17. Heine S., Hamamura T. In search of East Asian self-enhancement. Personality and Social Psychology Review 2007, 11:4-27.
18. Hodson G., Olson J.M. Testing the generality of the name letter effect: name initials and everyday attitudes. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 2005, 31(8):1099-1111.
19. Hoorens V., Nuttin J.M. Overvaluation of own attributes: mere ownership or subjective frequency?. Social Cognition 1993, 11(2):177-200.
20. Huang Y., Wang L., Shi J. When do objects become more attractive? The individual and interactive effects of choice and ownership on object evaluation. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 2009, 35(6):713-722.
21. Kahneman D., Knetsch J.L., Thaler R.H. Experimental tests of the endowment effect and the coase theorem. Journal of Political Economy 1990, 98:1325-1348.
22. Kim H.S., Sherman D.K., Sasaki J.Y., Xu J., Chu T.Q., Ryu C., et al. Culture, distress, and oxytocin receptor polymorphism (OXTR) interact to influence emotional support seeking. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2010, 107(36):15717-15721.
23. Kitayama S., Markus H. Individual and collective processes in the construction of the self: self-enhancement in the United States and self-criticism in Japan. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1997, 72:1245-1267.
24. Kosfeld M., Heinrichs M., Zak P.J., Fischbacher U., Fehr E. Oxytocin increases trust in humans. Nature 2005, 435(7042):673-676.
25. Leng Y., Zhou X. Modulation of the brain activity in outcome evaluation by interpersonal relationship: an ERP study. Neuropsychologia 2010, 48:448-455.
26. Linden D.E.J. The P300: where in the brain is it produced and what does it tell us?. The Neuroscientist 2005, 11(6):563-576.
27. Ma Y., Han S. Why we respond faster to the self than to others? An implicit positive association theory of self-advantage during implicit face recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 2010, 36(3):619-633.
28. Markus H.R., Kitayama S. Culture and the self: implications for cognition, emotion, and motivation. Psychological Review 1991, 98(2):224-253.
29. Maddux W.W., Yang H., Falk C., Adam H., Adair W., Endo Y., Carmon Z., et al. For whom is parting with possessions more painful? Cultural differences in the endowment effect. Psychological Science 2010, 21(12):1910-1917.
30. Mikolajczak M., Gross J.J., Lane A., Corneille O., de Timary P., Luminet O. Oxytocin makes people trusting, not gullible. Psychological Science 2010, 21(8):1072-1074.
31. Nieuwenhuis S., Aston-Jones G., Cohen J.D. Decision making, the P3, and the locus coeruleus-norepinephrine system. Psychological Bulletin 2005, 131(4):510-532.
32. Nuttin J.M. Narcissism beyond gestalt and awareness: the name letter effect. European Journal of Social Psychology 1985, 15(3):353-361.
33. Pedersen C.A., Gibson C.M., Rau S.W., Salimi K., Smedley K.L., Casey R.L., et al. Intranasal oxytocin reduces psychotic symptoms and improves theory of mind and social perception in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research 2011, 132:50-53.
34. Singelis T.M. The measurement of independent and interdependent self-construals. Personality and Social Psychological Bulletin 1994, 20:580-591.
35. Schupp H., Cuthbert B., Bradley M., Hillman C., Hamm A., Lang P. Brain processes in emotional perception: motivated attention. Cognition and Emotion 2004, 18(5):593-611.
36. Semlitsch H.V., Anderer P., Schuster P., Presslich O. A solution for reliable and valid reduction of ocular artifacts, applied to the P300 ERP. Psychophysiology 1986, 23(6):695-703.
37. Taylor S.E., Brown J.D. Illusion and well-being: a social psychological perspective on mental health. Psychological Bulletin 1988, 103(2):193-210.
38. Todd A.R., Bodenhausen G.V., Richeson J.A., Galinsky A.D. Perspective taking combats automatic expressions of racial bias. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 2011, 100(6):1027-1042.
39. Turk D.J., van Bussel K., Brebner J.L., Toma A.S., Krigolson O., Handy T.C. When it becomes mine: attentional biases triggered by object ownership. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 2011, 23:3725-3733.
40. van Dijk E., van Knippenberg D. Trading wine: on the endowment effect, loss aversion, and the comparability of consumer goods. Journal of Economic Psychology 1998, 19:485-495.
41. van Hooff J.C., Crawford H., van Vugt M. The wandering mind of men: ERP evidence for gender differences in attention bias towards attractive opposite sex faces. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 2010, 6:477-485.
42. Wang L., Ma Q., Song Z., Shi Y., Wang Y., Pfotenhauer L. N400 and the activation of prejudice against rural migrant workers in China. Brain Research 2011, 1375:103-110.
43. White K.R., Crites S.L., Taylor J.H., Corral G. Wait, what? Assessing stereotype incongruities using the N400 ERP component. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 2009, 4(2):191-198.
44. Yeung N., Sanfey A.G. Independent coding of reward magnitude and valence in the human brain. Journal of Neuroscience 2004, 24(28):6258-6264.
45. Zak P.J., Stanton A.A., Ahmadi S. Oxytocin increases generosity in humans. PLoS One 2007, 2(11):e1128.