In healthy volunteers with life stress, high BAS personality types responded more to a placebo spray described as an 'oxytocin treatment', while low BAS types did not.
In plain wordsIn stressed volunteers, a dummy spray called 'oxytocin' worked better in people with high BAS scores. No real oxytocin was given.
- Peptide
- Oxytocin
- Outcome
- Not applicableResponse to a placebo spray described as oxytocin, by BAS personality type
- Study
n: not reported in source
- Outcome group
- Anxiety and mood · Mental health and mood
Source sentences
Findings provide partial support for hypotheses, with high but not low BAS types having a greater response to the 'oxytocin' placebo; but the pattern of responses from high BIS types were contrary to predictions.
2 context sentences(design, population, supporting numbers)
Physically healthy volunteers (N=77) experiencing life stress were randomised to either the: (1) wait-list control, (2) 'serotonin treatment' group; or (3) 'oxytocin treatment' group.
Both treatment groups received an 'antistress' intranasal spray (placebo).
In this study, Oxytocin was a lab tool or a carrier, part of a mix, or the subject of a lab method. This result is not evidence about taking Oxytocin.