Association for Psychological Science: Search Results for oxytocin

Search Results for oxytocin

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1.	APS One of the primary bonds across the mammalian species is the mother-infant bond. New research points to a hormone that predicts the level of bonding between mother and child. “Evidence for a Neuroendocrinological Foundation of Human Affiliation: Plasma Oxytocin Levels Across Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period Predict Mother-Infant Bonding”), suggests that women with higher levels of oxytocin during their first trimester are primed to form exclusive bonds with their infants.
2.	Association for Psychological Science One of the primary bonds across the mammalian species is the mother-infant bond. Now, new research points to a hormone that predicts the level of bonding between mother and child. After the mothers completed an extensive survey and an interview on their bond-related thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, the researchers computed the link between levels of oxytocin and bonding.
3.	APS Oxytocin is implicated in the seeking of affiliative contact in response to stress, and, in conjunction with opioids, it also modulates stress responses. Specifically, in conjunction with positive affiliative contacts, oxytocin attenuates psychological and biological stress responses, but in conjunction with hostile and unsupportive contacts, oxytocin may exacerbate psychological and biological stress responses. Although significant paradoxes remain to be resolved, a mechanism that may ...
4.	APS We found that individuals with lesions to the amygdala, an area responsible for processing emotional responses, displayed impaired decision making when considering potential gains, but not when considering potential losses. We argue that this dissociation provides evidence that adaptive decision making for risks involving potential losses may be more difficult to disrupt than adaptive decision making for risks involving potential gains. In three experiments, mortality salience produced an ...
5.	APS Social Brain: APS President Bob Levenson introduces a symposium on social behavior and its roots in the brain with talks on prairie voles, rhesus monkeys, and humans. That was the subject of this year's Presidential Symposium at the APS Annual Convention, entitled "Searching for the Social Brain: The Biological Bases of Social Behavior. The effects of loneliness can even be seen in the brain: He discussed fMRI scans revealing that the caudate nucleus, a brain area associated with reward, is ...
6.	APS And as if stressing out over lines, health, your job, your grades, or global terrorism wasn’t enough, along comes the APS Observer with one more thing in your life to stress out over: Stress. These brain changes are thought by some researchers to be at the heart of the link between stress and depression — one of stress’s most devastating health consequences — as well as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Specifically, the amount of stress encountered in early life sensitizes an organism to...
7.	APS Conventional research on stress has focused on the fight-or-flight theory, theorizing that all animals react to stress with either an aggressive or evasive response. APS Fellow and Charter Member Shelley Taylor argued that while the fight-or-flight model may be applicable to male animals, it may not apply to females. Taylor noted that a meta-analysis of 26 studies found that all but one study showed evidence that women sought social support from others in times of stress.
8.	Association for Psychological Science Yet, many studies failed to support the idea that boosts to self-esteem or positive mood explains why writing about important values reduces defensiveness. In both studies, those who wrote about an important value felt more loving and connected after writing the essays than those who wrote about an unimportant value. And specifically in the second study, writing about an important value made smokers less defensive -- they were more accepting of the article’s claim that smoking harms health ...
9.	We're Only Human...: April 2009 The psychologists ran basically the same experiment with biology professors, people who make their living teaching university students about the natural world. For more insights into human nature, visit the “We’re Only Human” blog at www.psychologicalscience.org/onlyhuman. Sonya Sachdeva, Rumen Iliev and Douglas Medin had the idea that our sense of moral self-worth might serve as a kind of thermostat, tilting us toward moral stricture at one time and moral license at another, but keeping us...
10.	We're Only Human...: Nursing's Hidden Blessings The burden takes a serious toll on caregivers, leading to poorer health and even an increased risk of death. This suggests that the health problems of caregivers may not result from the actual burden of caring. Indeed, caring may have a tonic effect under certain circumstances, which may offset the emotional toll of witnessing a spouse’s deterioration and worrying about life alone.
11.	Untitled Document ” It is even stranger because his lack of loneliness persists even into the night, which “can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started. Cacioppo’s own research, forming the basis of his new book, Loneliness (2008), has found that social isolation grinds the body through a physical wear-and-tear essentially akin to “premature aging. This heightened understanding of loneliness, argues Cacioppo, can guide methods of easing the lonely back toward salutary social ...
12.	Untitled Document Given the fundamental influence of health on overall well-being, the survey has a particularly large number of questions regarding health conditions and habits, including prevalence of overall disease burden and specific diseases, short-term and long-term illness, subjective emotional and physical health, access to care, health habits, body mass index, and social support. Looking at the interaction of disease burden, negative work environment and sick days, the Well-Being Index data shows ...
13.	Untitled Document Tackling the talk’s theme — psychology as a hub science — Richard Thompson tracked a history of behavioral knowledge enhanced by brain imaging, Daniel Kahneman questioned the current conversation between psychology and economics, and Claude Steele envisioned a field dominated by interdisciplinary studies and translational funding. APS Fellow Kahneman acknowledged psychology’s influence on the growing field of behavioral economics, but argued that the present dialogue might not be as fluid as...
14.	Association for Psychological Science What's in a Name? Does playing the brain/memory game really help? For the full copy of a release or article, please contact us.
15.	Association for Psychological Science: Psychological Science - April 2008 What's So Special About Working Memory? An Examination of the Relationships Among Working Memory, Secondary Memory, and Fluid Intelligence Jacqueline A. Mogle, Benjamin J. Lovett, Robert S. Stawski, and Martin J. Sliwinski Increases in Positive Self-Views Among High School Students: Birth-Cohort Changes in Anticipated Performance, Self-Satisfaction, Self-Liking, and Self-Competence Jean M. Twenge and W. Keith Campbell
16.	APS This article reviews research that applies methods from basic affective science to obtain a more precise view of FTLD's impact on emotional functioning. In contrast, more complex emotional processes, such as those involved with self-conscious emotions (e.g., embarrassment), emotion regulation, and recognizing emotions in others, are severely impaired. Current research supports the view that autism involves delays and deficits not only in the development of a theory of mind but also in ...