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Oxytocin and Social Cognition.
Oxytocin has been linked to many domains within the realm of "social cognition." For example, research has shown that oxytocin affects trusting behavior, cooperation, as well as the perception and processing of facial expressions. Furthermore, oxytocin increases empathy and seems to exert differential effects on in-group versus out-group preferences. However, there are some conflicting results that point towards a modulatory effect of oxytocin, depending on a variety of contextual and within-subject factors. Research about the underlying mechanisms (e.g., neural circuits and genetics) indicates that the modulation of amygdala activity by oxytocin is elementary for the understanding of social cognitive processes. As regards genetics, several variants of the oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) have been extensively studied in relation to social cognition. Taken together, oxytocin is an important modulator of social cognitive processes, although substantially more research is needed in order to understand the complexity of oxytocinergic effects on social perception, cognition, and interpersonal behavior.
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