Oxytocin Increases the Perceived Value of Both Self- and Other-Owned Items and Alters Medial Prefrontal Cortex Activity in an Endowment Task

The neuropeptide oxytocin (OXT) can influence self-processing and may help motivate us to value the attributes of others in a more self-like manner by reducing medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) responses. We do not know however whether this OXT effect extends to possessions. We tend to place a higher...

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Published in:Front Hum Neurosci
Main Authors: Zhao, Weihua, Geng, Yayuan, Luo, Lizhu, Zhao, Zhiying, Ma, Xiaole, Xu, Lei, Yao, Shuxia, Kendrick, Keith M.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017
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Neuroscience
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5440465/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28588469
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2017.00272
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