The effect of intranasal oxytocin on perceiving and understanding emotion on the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso emotional intelligence test (MSCEIT)

Emotion

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 43-50

  Cardoso, Christopher ^a   Ellenbogen, Mark A ^a   Linnen, Anne Marie ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Emotion recognition; Faces; MSCEIT; Oxytocin; Social salience

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECTS; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE TEST; INTRANASAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRANASAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; OXYTOCIN; PERCEPTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84895074369     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0034314     Document Type: Article

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