Healthy
Conditions
Keywords
oxytocin, social reward, social punishment
Brief summary
To examine potential differential effects of receiving various social feedback on achieving personal goals,and whether oxytocin would modulate these effects.
Detailed description
In the present study, 62 healthy male participants participated in the double-blind, placebo-controlled experiment. Investigators aimed to test the idea that whether oxytocin would modulate subjective responses during receiving various social reward and social punishment about the future outcomes of pursuing personal goals.
Interventions
intranasal administration of oxytocin (40 IU)
DRUGplacebo treatment
intranasal administration of placebo (40 IU)
Sponsors
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
DOUBLE (Subject, Investigator)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
MALE
Age
18 Years to 30 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* Healthy subjects without past or current psychiatric or neurological disorders.
Exclusion criteria
* Taking oral contraceptives; * No history of head injury and medical or psychiatric illness.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Rating of Encouragement after receiving specific social feedback | one hour | There're 96 different social feedback totally for four goals which were divided into four runs consisting of 24 different feedback separately for each goal video.Therefore,subjects were instructed to complete the encouragement rating after receiving each specific feedback. To measure the rating,the investigators used the 9-point likert scale in which one refers to the minimum encouragement while nine refers to maximum encouragement. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Rating of Likeability after receiving specific social feedback | one hour | There're 96 social feedback totally for four goals which were divided into four runs consisting of 24 feedback separately for each goal video.Therefore,subjects were instructed to complete the likeability rating after receiving each specific feedback. To measure the rating,the investigators used the 9-point likert scale in which one refers to the minimum likeability while nine refers to maximum likeability. |
Other
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Rating of Confidence after receiving a series of social feedback | one hour | There're 96 social feedback totally for four goals which were divided into four runs consisting of 24 feedback separately for each goal video.Furthermore, these 24 feedback were categorized into three types which include 8 feedback separately.Therefore,subjects were instructed to complete the confidence rating after receiving these 8 feedback together. To measure the rating, the investigators used the 9-point likert scale in which one refers to the minimum confidence while nine refers to maximum confidence. |
Countries
China
Outcome results
None listed