Oxytocin enhances pupil dilation and sensitivity to 'hidden' emotional expressions

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 741-749

  Leknes, Siri ^a,b   Wessberg, Johan ^b   Ellingsen, Dan Mikael ^a,b   Chelnokova, Olga ^a   Olausson, Håkan ^b   Laeng, Bruno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Emotion; Empathy; Hormones; Locus coeruleus; Pupillometry; Social

Indexed keywords

HORMONE; OXYTOCIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; EMOTION; EMPATHY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRANASAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PUPIL; PUPILLOMETRY; RECOGNITION; SOCIAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EMOTION; EMPATHY; HORMONES; LOCUS COERULEUS; PUPILLOMETRY; SOCIAL;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRANASAL; ADULT; ATTENTION; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OXYTOCIN; PUPIL; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84885735216     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nss062     Document Type: Article

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