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SUBMITTER: Kogan A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3228468 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kogan Aleksandr A Saslow Laura R LR Impett Emily A EA Oveis Christopher C Keltner Dacher D Rodrigues Saturn Sarina S
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20111114 48
Individuals who are homozygous for the G allele of the rs53576 SNP of the oxytocin receptor (OXTR) gene tend to be more prosocial than carriers of the A allele. However, little is known about how these differences manifest behaviorally and whether they are readily detectable by outside observers, both critical questions in theoretical accounts of prosociality. In the present study, we used thin-slicing methodology to test the hypotheses that (i) individual differences in rs53576 genotype predict ...[more]