In undergraduate students, a single dose of intranasal oxytocin decreased salivary cortisol during a social rejection stressor relative to placebo.
In plain wordsIn university students, nasal oxytocin lowered saliva cortisol during a social rejection task, compared with placebo.
- Peptide
- Oxytocin
- Outcome
- DecreaseSalivary cortisol during social rejection stressor
- Study
n = 96
- Comparator
- Placebo
- Outcome group
- Stress hormones · Endocrine and hormones
- Studied dose
- 24 IU · intranasalAs given in this study (human).
Source sentences
Participants who were administered oxytocin exhibited a decrease in cortisol levels, relative to placebo, during the YIPS, F (4, 184)=4.50, p<0.05.
2 context sentences(design, population, supporting numbers)
Ninety-six undergraduate students underwent the YIPS, where participants were excluded from two separate conversations by two same-sex confederates.
Participants were administered, in a double-blind design, a single dose of intranasal oxytocin (24 IU) or placebo prior to beginning the YIPS.