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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 103, Issue 20, Pages 7889-7894Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0600406103
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affiliation; aggression; anxiety; autism; emotion
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- NIMH NIH HHS [R03 MH063996, R03MH063996-01A] Funding Source: Medline
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Arginine vasopressin (AVP) and related peptides affect social behaviors innumerous species, but AVP influences on human social functions have not yet been established. Here, we describe how intranasal AVP administration differentially affects social communication in men and women, and we propose a mechanism through which it may exert those influences. In men, AVIP stimulates agonistic facial motor patterns in response to the faces of unfamiliar men and decreases perceptions of the friendliness of those faces. In contrast, in women, AVP stimulates affiliative facial motor patterns in response to the faces of unfamiliar women and increases perceptions of the friendliness of those faces. AVP also affected autonomic responsiveness to threatening faces and increased anxiety, which may underlie both communication patterns by promoting different social strategies in stressful contexts in men and women.
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