The role of oxytocin in implicit personal space regulation: An fMRI study

Cohen, Daniela; Mayseless, Naama; Kleinmintz, Oded M.; Shamay‐Tsoory, Simone G.

doi:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2018.02.036

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“…To sum up, the novelty of our findings is that the physiological response elicited by proximity to another person may play a crucial role on how we regulate the distance between ourselves and others during social interaction. This is an interesting point that highlights how autonomic response, which we often fail to detect consciously 41 , 42 , may nevertheless influence interpersonal space boundary 4 , 15 , 43 , thus offering a new perspective on the implicit component of social proximity.…”

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The physiological correlates of interpersonal space

Candini

Battaglia

Benassi

et al. 2021

Sci Rep

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Interpersonal space (IPS) is the area around the body that individuals maintain between themselves and others during social interactions. When others violate our IPS, feeling of discomfort rise up, urging us to move farther away and reinstate an appropriate interpersonal distance. Previous studies showed that when individuals are exposed to closeness of an unknown person (a confederate), the skin conductance response (SCR) increases. However, if the SCR is modulated according to participant’s preferred IPS is still an open question. To test this hypothesis, we recorded the SCR in healthy participants when a confederate stood in front of them at various distances simulating either an approach or withdrawal movement (Experiment 1). Then, the comfort-distance task was adopted to measure IPS: participants stop the confederate, who moved either toward or away from them, when they felt comfortable with other’s proximity (Experiment 2). We found higher SCR when the confederate stood closer to participants simulating an IPS intrusion, compared to when the confederate moved farther away. Crucially, we provide the first evidence that SCR, acting as a warning signal, contributes to interpersonal distance preference suggesting a functional link between behavioral components of IPS regulation and the underlying physiological processes.

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confidence: 86%

The physiological correlates of interpersonal space

Candini

Battaglia

Benassi

et al. 2021

Sci Rep

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“…Importantly, the goal of our two previous reports was to focus on main and interaction effects, whereas the present analyses focus specifically on main effects across all tasks. In the present study we also present results from four previously unreported tasks that examined the main effects of OT or AVP on: 3) deception detection (as in Israel et al, 2014;Pfundmair et al, 2017), 4) perceptions of trustworthiness or threat based on interpersonal distance (similar to outcomes studied in Cohen et al, 2018;Perry et al, 2015;Scheele et al, 2012), 5) a hypothetical bystander intervention, and 6) written reflections on a supportive interaction or a conflict with a close other (see Supplemental Materials for the background rationale of each task). It is important to note that our study began before the conceptually similar studies cited above were published.…”

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confidence: 93%

Null results of oxytocin and vasopressin administration across a range of social cognitive and behavioral paradigms: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial

Tabak

Teed

Castle

et al. 2019

Psychoneuroendocrinology

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Research examining oxytocin and vasopressin in humans has the potential to elucidate neurobiological mechanisms underlying human sociality that have been previously unknown or not well characterized. A primary goal of this work is to increase our knowledge about neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders characterized by impairments in social cognition. However, years of research highlighting wide-ranging effects of, in particular, intranasal oxytocin administration have been tempered as the fields of psychology, neuroscience, and other disciplines have been addressing concerns over the reproducibility and validity of research findings. We present a series of behavioral tasks that were conducted using a randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled, between-subjects design, in which our research group found no main effects of oxytocin and vasopressin on a host of social outcomes. In addition to null hypothesis significance testing, we implemented equivalence testing and Bayesian hypothesis testing to examine the sensitivity of our findings. These analyses indicated that 47-83% of our results (depending on the method of post-hoc analysis) had enough sensitivity to detect the absence of a main effect. Our results add to evidence that intranasal oxytocin may have a more limited direct effect on human social processes than initially assumed and suggest that the direct effects of intranasal vasopressin may be similarly limited. Randomized controlled trial registration: NCT01680718.

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“…Most of the included studies were of "good" quality rating. 12 of the articles received a score of 7-9 stars and were rated as "good" [40][41][42][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52], while the other 5 articles received a score of 5-6 stars and were rated as "fair" [18,[53][54][55][56].…”

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“…From Table 1, 11 studies were conducted with healthy individuals [18,40,41,45,[47][48][49][50]52,54,56] and 6 were with participants who had psychiatric disorders [42,44,46,51,53,55]. 696 subjects (47.6% males, 52.4% females) took part in the IPD experiments while recording the neural activities.…”

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Neural Alterations in Interpersonal Distance (IPD) Cognition and Its Correlation with IPD Behavior: A Systematic Review

Huang

Izumi

2021

Brain Sciences

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Background. Interpersonal distance (IPD) plays a critical role in a human being’s social life, especially during interpersonal interaction, and IPD is non-verbal social information and not only provides silent cues but also provides a secure space for personal relationships. IPD has been a research field of neural studies from the recent decade, researches had provided behavior and neural correlates of IPD. Objectives. This review aims to summarize the experimental paradigms of IPD-neural research, to reveal the neural activity processes associated with it, and to explore the correlation between IPD-neural activity and IPD-behavior. Methods. We conducted a standardized systematic review procedure, including the formal search method be adopted to seek out any type of studies related to IPD and brain, then devised them into categories to make a systematic review. Results. 17 articles met the inclusion criteria of the review, 5 event-related potential (ERP) studies measured the amplitude and latencies of ERPs, and 12 functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies provided the neural activation during IPD tasks. In addition, the passive IPD experimental paradigm is the main experimental paradigm for exploring neural activity in IPD cognition, with the parietal lobe, motor areas, prefrontal lobe, and amygdala being the main brain areas involved. Functional connections between the identified brain regions were found and have a moderate correlation with IPD behavior. Conclusions. This review provides the neural activity of the IPD interaction process. However, the insufficient ecological validity of IPD tasks and ignore the initiative of people in IPD interaction. Therefore, there is a large research space on this topic. The work of the current systematic review contributed to linking the external performance and inner neural activities of IPD.

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The role of oxytocin in implicit personal space regulation: An fMRI study

Cited by 18 publications

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The physiological correlates of interpersonal space

The physiological correlates of interpersonal space

Null results of oxytocin and vasopressin administration across a range of social cognitive and behavioral paradigms: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial

Neural Alterations in Interpersonal Distance (IPD) Cognition and Its Correlation with IPD Behavior: A Systematic Review

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