In insecurely attached healthy men, a single intranasal oxytocin dose raised the ranking of secure attachment phrases and lowered the ranking of insecure phrases in 18 of 26 subjects versus placebo.
In plain wordsIn insecurely attached healthy men, one nasal dose of oxytocin raised the sense of attachment security in most subjects, compared with placebo.
- Peptide
- Oxytocin
- Outcome
- IncreaseAttachment security ranking of AAP secure phrases
- Study
n = 26
- Comparator
- Placebo
- Outcome group
- Social behavior and cognition · Mental health and mood
- Studied dose
- Dose not stated · intranasal · single doseAs given in this study (human).
Measurements
- Subjects with increased secure ranking
- 18 subjects
- oxytocin condition
- Proportion of subjects with increased secure ranking
- 69%
- oxytocin condition
Source sentences
In the oxytocin condition, a significant proportion of these insecure subjects (N=18; 69%) increased in their rankings of the AAP prototypical "secure attachment" phrases and decreased in overall ranking of the "insecure attachment" phrases.
2 context sentences(design, population, supporting numbers)
Within a 3-week interval, 26 healthy male students classified with an insecure attachment pattern were invited twice to an experimental session.
At the beginning of each experiment, a single dose of oxytocin or placebo was administered intranasally, using a double-blind, placebo-controlled within-subject design.