The effects of intranasal oxytocin on black participants' responses to outgroup acceptance and rejection.

ABSTRACT: Social acceptance (vs. rejection) is assumed to have widespread positive effects on the recipient; however, ethnic/racial minorities often react negatively to social acceptance by White individuals. One possibility for such reactions might be their lack of trust in the genuineness of White individuals' positive evaluations. Here, we examined the role that oxytocin-a neuropeptide putatively linked to social processes-plays in modulating reactions to acceptance or rejection during interracial interactions. Black participants (N = 103) received intranasal oxytocin or placebo and interacted with a White, same-sex stranger who provided positive or negative social feedback. After positive feedback, participants given oxytocin (vs. placebo) tended to display approach-oriented cardio

SUBMITTER: Park J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9434127 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature