In touch with your emotions: Oxytocin and touch change social impressions while others' facial expressions can alter touch

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 11-20

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Emotion; Facial expression; Human; Interpersonal; Oxytocin; Pupil dilation; Touch

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPIL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TACTILE STIMULATION; TOUCH; VISUAL STIMULATION; EMOTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL; OXYTOCIN; PUPIL DILATION; TOUCH;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRANASAL; ADULT; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OXYTOCIN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TOUCH; VIBRATION;

EID: 84888060886     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: 18733360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2013.09.017     Document Type: Article

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