Oxytocin and social pretreatment have similar effects on processing of negative emotional faces in healthy adult males

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue AUG, 2013, Pages

  Kis, Anna ^a,b   Kemerle, Kinga ^c   Hernádi, Anna ^a,b   Topál, József ^a  

^a Research Centre for Natural Sciences Hungarian Academy of Sciences   (Hungary)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Face processing; Memory; Negative emotion; Oxytocin; Social stimuli

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885339189     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00532     Document Type: Article

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