A. Campbell
Oxytocin and human social behaviour
Campbell, A.
Authors
Abstract
Despite a general consensus that oxytocin (OT) has prosocial effects, there is no clear agreement on how these effects are achieved. Human research on OT is reviewed under three broad research initiatives: attachment and trust, social memory, and fear reduction. As an organizing perspective for scholars’ current knowledge, a tentative model of the causes and effects of alterations in OT level is proposed. The model must remain provisional until conceptual and methodological problems are addressed that arise from a failure to distinguish between traits and states, differing research paradigms used in relation to OT as an independent versus dependent variable, and the possibility that OT effects depend on the initial emotional state of the individual. Social and personality psychologists have important roles to play in developing more rigorous and creative research designs.
Citation
Campbell, A. (2010). Oxytocin and human social behaviour. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 14(3), 281-295. https://doi.org/10.1177/1088868310363594
Journal Article Type | Article |
---|---|
Publication Date | Aug 1, 2010 |
Deposit Date | Jan 26, 2012 |
Publicly Available Date | Nov 22, 2012 |
Journal | Personality and Social Psychology Review |
Print ISSN | 1088-8683 |
Electronic ISSN | 1532-7957 |
Publisher | SAGE Publications |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 14 |
Issue | 3 |
Pages | 281-295 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1177/1088868310363594 |
Keywords | Social neuroscience, Evolutionary psychology, Interpersonal processes. |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1519781 |
Files
Accepted Journal Article
(249 Kb)
PDF
Copyright Statement
The final definitive version of this article has been published in the Journal Personality and social psychology review 14/3, 2010 © SAGE Publications Ltd by SAGE Publications Ltd at the Personality and social psychology review page: http://psr.sagepub.com/ on SAGE Journals Online: http://online.sagepub.com/
You might also like
Impulsivity, sensation seeking and reproductive behaviour: A life history perspective
(2013)
Journal Article
Effects of oxytocin on women’s aggression depend on state anxiety
(2013)
Journal Article
Sex differences in impulsivity: A meta-analysis
(2011)
Journal Article
Gender symmetry in intimate aggression: An effect of intimacy or target sex?
(2011)
Journal Article
Downloadable Citations
About Durham Research Online (DRO)
Administrator e-mail: dro.admin@durham.ac.uk
This application uses the following open-source libraries:
SheetJS Community Edition
Apache License Version 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/)
PDF.js
Apache License Version 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/)
Font Awesome
SIL OFL 1.1 (http://scripts.sil.org/OFL)
MIT License (http://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html)
CC BY 3.0 ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
Powered by Worktribe © 2025
Advanced Search