Oxytocin increases trust in humans

By Michael Kosfeld, M. Heinrichs, Paul J. Zak, Urs Fischbacher, Ernst Fehr. Nature, 2005

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Oxytocin and the neural mechanisms regulating social cognition and affiliative behavior. (2009, background): “When administered intranasally to human subjects, OT stimulates behaviors consistent with an enhancement of interpersonal trust during economic games [99].”
Oxytocin promotes human ethnocentrism (2011, methodology): “There is no doubt that oxytocin is implicated in the development of trust (10, 18), empathy, and prosociality (11), but these tendencies appear limited to individuals belonging to one’s in-group (16, 17).”
Promoting social behavior with oxytocin in high-functioning autism spectrum disorders (2010, background): “In a simulated economic investment game, subjects who received an intranasal spray of oxytocin were more inclined, as compared to a placebo control group, to trust another player by sending him money with no guarantee of reciprocation, suggesting that oxytocin acts on brain circuits that promote soc”
The Intergenerational Transmission of Risk and Trust Attitudes (2012, background): “3 Trust is similarly important, but in the realm of social interactions, determining the way that an individual approaches other people (Glaeser et al., 2000; Fehr et al., 2003; Kosfeld et al., 2005).”
Oxytocin receptor genetic variation relates to empathy and stress reactivity in humans (2009, background): “In humans, intranasal administration of oxytocin increases generosity (8), trust (9), eye gaze (10), and the ability to infer the affective mental states of others (11).”
Children's altruistic behavior in the dictator game (2007, background): “Neural (Fehr & Rockenbach, 2004) and hormonal (Kosfeld et al., 2005) studies indicate an evolved basis for the maintenance of altruistic norms, which is consistent with the early expression of altruistic behavior.”
My Mind Is Mine!? Cognitive Liberty as a Legal Concept (2013, background): “For instance, secretly spraying Oxytocin, a neuropeptid that modulates interesting behavioral properties (Fehr et al. 2005), or pouring NE into someone else’s coffee should be illegitimate.”
Critical Neuroscience: Linking Neuroscience and Society through Critical Practice (2009, background): “As it is supposed to increase trust and generosity (Kirsch et al., 2005; Kosfeld et al., 2005; Zak et al., 2007), it is marketed as nasal spray to help establish trust between people.”
On the Economics and Biology of Trust (2009, background): “Based on the animal literature, Kosfeld et al. (2005) hypothesized that oxytocin might cause humans to exhibit more behavioral trust as measured in the trust game.”
Close social associations in animals and humans : functions and mechanisms of friendship (2010, background): “Intranasal administration of oxytocin in humans increases trust in strangers (Kosfeld et al., 2005) and generosity in general (Zak et al.”
A common allele in the oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) impacts prosocial temperament and human hypothalamic-limbic structure and function (2010, background): “Although invasive animal work suggested a role for OT in the human brain, this claim could not be subjected to direct experimental examination (8) until nasally administered neuropeptides were shown to impact the central nervous system (9).”
Music, biological evolution, and the brain (2010, background): “This in turn promoted bonding because endorphins, " as a byproduct of their role in pain control…have the property of making us feel warm and well disposed towards others who share…the experience that stimulates their production " (cf. Cohen et al., 2009, Kosfeld et al., 2005).”