The aim of the study is to explore how the rewarding effect of men's verbal compliment is modulated by oxytocin and gonadal hormone in a romantic context.
To investigate whether oxytocin (24IU) might interact with female sex hormone in modulating the rewarding effect of compliment to women in a romantic context. The study employs a double-blind, within-subject, placebo-control design. Women will be administered with the same drug twice (oxytocin or placebo) respectively the fertile and luteal phase followed by a MRI scanning. During fMRI participants will rate men's attraction based on their facial pictures of average attractiveness associated with compliments of different combination of form and topic. Each male face will be paired with two sentences of the same kind. After the fMRI participants will recall the judgment followed by a memory test during which they have to indicate whether the they have seen the face during scanning (old) or whether it is an unknown face (new).
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
DOUBLE
Enrollment
80
University of Electronic Science and Technology of Chia
Chengdu, Sichuan, China
Oxytocin effect on neural activity as assessed via fMRI towards reward between fertility and luteal phases
Effects of oxytocin versus placebo nasal spray on neural processing of reward will be compared between different cycle phases
Time frame: 45min-120min after treatment
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