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- Influence
Social effects of oxytocin in humans: context and person matter
- J. Bartz, J. Zaki, N. Bolger, K. Ochsner
- Psychology, Medicine
- Trends in Cognitive Sciences
- 1 July 2011
Building on animal research, the past decade has witnessed a surge of interest in the effects of oxytocin on social cognition and prosocial behavior in humans. This work has generated considerable… Expand
The neuroscience of empathy: progress, pitfalls and promise
- J. Zaki, K. Ochsner
- Psychology, Medicine
- Nature Neuroscience
- 1 May 2012
The last decade has witnessed enormous growth in the neuroscience of empathy. Here, we survey research in this domain with an eye toward evaluating its strengths and weaknesses. First, we take stock… Expand
Oxytocin Selectively Improves Empathic Accuracy
- J. Bartz, J. Zaki, +4 authors K. Ochsner
- Psychology, Medicine
- Psychological science
- 20 September 2010
Oxytocin is known to regulate prosocial behavior and social cognition in animals (Ross & Young, 2009), and recent studies suggest that oxytocin may have similar functions in humans. For example,… Expand
Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response
- J. V. Bavel, Katherine Baicker, +39 authors Robb Willer
- Psychology, Medicine
- Nature Human Behaviour
- 30 April 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic represents a massive global health crisis. Because the crisis requires large-scale behaviour change and places significant psychological burdens on individuals, insights from… Expand
Interpersonal emotion regulation.
- J. Zaki, W. C. Williams
- Psychology, Medicine
- Emotion
- 1 October 2013
Contemporary emotion regulation research emphasizes intrapersonal processes such as cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression, but people experiencing affect commonly choose not to go it… Expand
Empathy: a motivated account.
- J. Zaki
- Psychology, Medicine
- Psychological bulletin
- 1 November 2014
Empathy features a tension between automaticity and context dependency. On the one hand, people often take on each other's internal states reflexively and outside of awareness. On the other hand,… Expand
Social Influence Modulates the Neural Computation of Value
- J. Zaki, J. Schirmer, J. Mitchell
- Psychology, Medicine
- Psychological science
- 8 June 2011
Social influence—individuals’ tendency to conform to the beliefs and attitudes of others—has interested psychologists for decades. However, it has traditionally been difficult to distinguish true… Expand
The neural bases of empathic accuracy
- J. Zaki, Jochen Weber, N. Bolger, K. Ochsner
- Psychology, Medicine
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- 7 July 2009
Theories of empathy suggest that an accurate understanding of another's emotions should depend on affective, motor, and/or higher cognitive brain regions, but until recently no experimental method… Expand
Effects of oxytocin on recollections of maternal care and closeness
- J. Bartz, J. Zaki, +4 authors J. Lydon
- Psychology, Medicine
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- 29 November 2010
Although the infant–caregiver attachment bond is critical to survival, little is known about the biological mechanisms supporting attachment representations in humans. Oxytocin plays a key role in… Expand
Social Cognitive Conflict Resolution: Contributions of Domain-General and Domain-Specific Neural Systems
- J. Zaki, K. Hennigan, Jochen Weber, K. Ochsner
- Psychology, Medicine
- The Journal of Neuroscience
- 23 June 2010
Cognitive control mechanisms allow individuals to behave adaptively in the face of complex and sometimes conflicting information. Although the neural bases of these control mechanisms have been… Expand