To examine potential differential effects of receiving various social feedback on achieving personal goals,and whether oxytocin would modulate these effects.
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.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
DOUBLE
Enrollment
62
intranasal administration of oxytocin (40 IU)
intranasal administration of placebo (40 IU)
school of life science and technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Chengdu, Sichuan, China
Rating of Encouragement after receiving specific social feedback
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.
Time frame: one hour
Rating of Likeability after receiving specific social feedback
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.
Time frame: one hour
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