NCT02963194

Oxytocin Effects on Self and Other Processing

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 44 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: 18 Years – 27 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

To determine whether the neuropeptide oxytocin (OXT) influences self-processing by investigating whether it increases the endowment effect in relation to both self and others.

Detailed description

In a double-blind, between- subject placebo (PLC) controlled design, investigator aimed to measure the effect of intranasal OXT on the endowment effect. All subjects completed a range of questionnaires measuring personality and affective traits and levels of anxiety before self-administration: Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) , State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) , Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), self-esteem scale (SES). Subjects were asked to decide whether to buy or sell their own or others' (their mothers'/ fathers'/ classmate'/ strangers') possessions at various prices. Indifference point and brain activation were inluded into analysis as dependent variables.

Conditions

• Social Behavior

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	Oxytocin
DRUG	Placebo

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-11-01
• Primary completion: 2016-03-01
• Completion: 2016-06-01
• First posted: 2016-11-15
• Last updated: 2016-11-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China