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SUBMITTER: Yuhi T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6262286 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yuhi Teruko T Ise Kosuke K Iwashina Kei K Terao Naoya N Yoshioka Satoshi S Shomura Keijiro K Maehara Toshikatsu T Yazaki Akari A Koichi Kana K Furuhara Kazumi K Cherepanov Stanislav M SM Gerasimenko Maria M Shabalova Anna A AA Hosoki Kouhei K Kodama Hikari H Zhu Hong H Tsuji Chiharu C Yokoyama Shigeru S Higashida Haruhiro H
Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) 20181103 11
<b>Background:</b> Oxytocin (OT), a neuropeptide, has positive effects on social and emotional processes during group activities. Because cooking is an integrated process in the cognitive, physical, and socio-emotional areas, cooking in a group is reported to improve emotion and cognition. However, evidence for efficacy in group cooking has not been well established at the biological level. <b>Methods:</b> To address this shortcoming, we first measured salivary levels of OT and cortisol (CORT), ...[more]