Relationship between oxytocin receptor genotype and recognition of facial emotion

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 127, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 780-787

  Melchers, Martin ^a   Montag, Christian ^a   Markett, Sebastian ^a   Reuter, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Emotion recognition; Empathy; OXTR; Oxytocin; Perspective taking

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; HUMAN; MALE; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR GENE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ADULT; EMOTIONS; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84887541383     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: 19390084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0033748     Document Type: Article

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