Oxytocin increases the social salience of the outgroup in potential threat contexts

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dc.contributor.authorEgito J.H.
dc.contributor.authorNevat M.
dc.contributor.authorShamay-Tsoory S.G.
dc.contributor.authorOsorio A.A.C.
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-12T23:47:51Z
dc.date.available2024-03-12T23:47:51Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstract© 2020 Elsevier Inc.A growing body of literature suggests that OT administration may affect not only prosocial outcomes, but also regulate adversarial responses in the context of intergroup relations. However, recent reports have challenged the view of a fixed role of OT in enhancing ingroup favoritism and outgroup derogation. Studying the potential effects of OT in modulating threat perception in a context characterized by racial miscegenation (Brazil) may thus afford additional clarification on the matter. In a double-blind, placebo-controlled study, White Brazilian participants completed a first-person shooter task to assess their responses towards potential threat from racial ingroup (White) or outgroup (Black) members. OT administration enhanced the social salience of the outgroup, by both increasing the rate at which participants refrained from shooting unarmed Black targets to levels similar to White targets, and by further increasing the rate of correct decisions to shoot armed Black targets (versus White armed targets). In summary, our results indicate that a single dose of OT may promote accurate behavioral responses to potential threat from members of a racial outgroup, thus offering support to the social salience hypothesis.
dc.description.volume122
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.yhbeh.2020.104733
dc.identifier.issn1095-6867
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.mackenzie.br/handle/10899/34973
dc.relation.ispartofHormones and Behavior
dc.rightsAcesso Aberto
dc.subject.otherlanguageOxytocin
dc.subject.otherlanguageRacial bias
dc.subject.otherlanguageSocial salience hypothesis
dc.subject.otherlanguageThreat perception
dc.titleOxytocin increases the social salience of the outgroup in potential threat contexts
dc.typeArtigo
local.scopus.citations17
local.scopus.eid2-s2.0-85082932573
local.scopus.subjectAdolescent
local.scopus.subjectAdult
local.scopus.subjectAfrican Continental Ancestry Group
local.scopus.subjectAggression
local.scopus.subjectBrazil
local.scopus.subjectCrime
local.scopus.subjectDouble-Blind Method
local.scopus.subjectEuropean Continental Ancestry Group
local.scopus.subjectFirearms
local.scopus.subjectGroup Processes
local.scopus.subjectHumans
local.scopus.subjectMale
local.scopus.subjectOxytocin
local.scopus.subjectRace Relations
local.scopus.subjectRacism
local.scopus.subjectSocial Behavior
local.scopus.subjectSocial Cognition
local.scopus.subjectSocial Perception
local.scopus.subjectYoung Adult
local.scopus.updated2024-05-01
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