NCT02733237

Oxytocin Effects on the Tolerance of Infidelity

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 160 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 19 Years – 28 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

To investigate whether intranasal oxytocin (40 IU) treatment can influence the tolerance of infidelity in males and females.

Detailed description

In a double-blind, between-subject, placebo controlled design, investigators plan to investigate the effect of oxytocin treatment on the tolerance of infidelity. Male and female subjects would firstly see a neutral face of the opposite sex presented with a sentence descried their fidelity or infidelity behavior (sexual or emotional) in a relationship. Next the participant will rate the attractiveness, likability and trustworthiness of each individual, and whether they would like to have a short/long relationship with him/her. After that there will be some implicit attitude tasks to test their implicit attitude towards potential partners exhibiting previous fidelity or and infidelity.

Conditions

• Healthy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	oxytocin treatment	intranasal administration of oxytocin (40 IU)
DRUG	placebo treatment	intranasal administration of placebo (40 IU)

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-04-01
• Primary completion: 2016-04-01
• Completion: 2016-05-01
• First posted: 2016-04-11
• Last updated: 2017-03-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China