In participants (N=51), intranasal oxytocin increased the likelihood of including photos that contain touch in an emotional album, particularly touch between inanimate objects.
In plain wordsIn study participants, nasal oxytocin made people more likely to add photos showing touch to an emotional album, especially touch between objects.
- Peptide
- Oxytocin
- Outcome
- IncreaseInclusion of touch photos in an emotional album
- Study
n = 51
- Outcome group
- Social behavior and cognition · Nervous system and cognition
- Studied dose
- Dose not stated · intranasalAs given in this study (human).
Source sentences
We asked them to rate whether they will include each photo in an emotional album and found that OT treatment increased the likelihood of inclusion in an emotional album to photos that contain touch, particularly between inanimate objects.
1 context sentence(design, population, supporting numbers)
To that end, we implicitly measured the emotional reactions of participants (N=51) to photos that depicted two humans or two inanimate objects either touching or not touching.