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Alcohol acutely enhances decoding of positive emotions and emotional concern for positive stimuli and facilitates the viewing of sexual images.

Dolder PC, Holze F, Liakoni E, Harder S, Schmid Y, Liechti ME

Psychopharmacology19 Sept 2016Cited by 35 (Europe PMC)

PMID27640999 (opens in a new tab)DOI10.1007/s00213-016-4431-6 (opens in a new tab)PepBankPUB-27640999
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  1. 01HumanEndogenous levelRandomized controlled trialOther

    In healthy social drinkers, alcoholic beer did not alter circulating oxytocin levels versus non-alcoholic beer.

    In plain wordsIn healthy social drinkers, alcohol did not change the body's own oxytocin levels compared with non-alcoholic beer.

    Peptide
    Oxytocin
    Outcome
    No significant changeCirculating oxytocin after alcohol
    Study

    n = 60

    Comparator
    Non-alcoholic beer
    Outcome group
    Hormone levels · Endocrine and hormones

    Source sentences

    Summary
    Alcohol did not alter the levels of circulating oxytocin.
    2 context sentences
    Summary · context
    We investigated the effects of alcoholic or non-alcoholic beer on emotion recognition, empathy, and sexual arousal using the dynamic face emotion recognition task (FERT), Multifaceted Empathy Test (MET), and Sexual Arousal Task (SAT) in a double-blind, random-order, cross-over study in 60 healthy social drinkers.
    Summary · context
    We also assessed subjective effects using visual analog scales (VASs), blood alcohol concentrations, and plasma oxytocin levels.

    This result measures the body's own Oxytocin. Nobody was given the peptide. It is not evidence about taking it.

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  1. Version 2Current

    11 Oct 2026, 01:30 UTC

    Study results updated

  2. Version 1

    9 Oct 2026, 02:49 UTC

    First added · source update from Europe PMC

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