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Zak suggests that intimate contact, using social ritual and social media such as using Twitter and Facebook raises oxytocin levels. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] He is a frequent public speaker on the neuroscience of daily life, including morality, storytelling, and organizational culture and writes articles for magazines and trade publication on these topics.
Generous offers in the ultimatum game (offers exceeding the minimum acceptable offer) are commonly made. Zak, Stanton & Ahmadi (2007) showed that two factors can explain generous offers: empathy and perspective taking. [34] [35] They varied empathy by infusing participants with intranasal oxytocin or placebo (blinded). They affected perspective ...
[non sequitur] Paul J. Zak and colleagues administered the peptide oxytocin or placebo was given to about 100 men who then they made several decisions regarding money. One scenario, the Dictator Game , was used to measure altruism by asking people to make a unilateral transfer of $10 they were given by the experimenters to a stranger in the lab ...
There is some evidence to suggest that abnormalities in the regulation of oxytocin and testosterone are related to schizotypy. Crespi (2015) provides evidence that schizophrenia and related disorders may involve increased or dysregulated oxytocin, and relatively decreased testosterone, leading to "hyper-developed" social cognition, [ 78 ...
Oxytocin is a peptide hormone and neuropeptide normally produced in the hypothalamus and released by the posterior pituitary. [4] Present in animals since early stages of evolution, in humans it plays roles in behavior that include social bonding, love, reproduction, childbirth, and the period after childbirth.
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