Oxytocin facilitates social approach behavior in women

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue MAY, 2014, Pages

  Preckel, Katrin ^a   Scheele, Dirk ^a   Kendrick, Keith M ^b   Maier, Wolfgang ^a,c   Hurlemann, René ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES DZNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Approach; Avoidance; Female; Oxytocin; Sexual dimorphic; Social distance

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESSIN; OXYTOCIN;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HETEROSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONALITY; PHYLOGENY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL PHOBIA; VISUAL STIMULATION; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 84901626850     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00191     Document Type: Article

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