| Title |
The Oxytocin Receptor (OXTR) Contributes to Prosocial Fund Allocations in the Dictator Game and the Social Value Orientations Task
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| Published in |
PLOS ONE, May 2009
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0005535 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Salomon Israel, Elad Lerer, Idan Shalev, Florina Uzefovsky, Mathias Riebold, Efrat Laiba, Rachel Bachner-Melman, Anat Maril, Gary Bornstein, Ariel Knafo, Richard P. Ebstein |
| Abstract |
Economic games observe social decision making in the laboratory that involves real money payoffs. Previously we have shown that allocation of funds in the Dictator Game (DG), a paradigm that illustrates costly altruistic behavior, is partially determined by promoter-region repeat region variants in the arginine vasopressin 1a receptor gene (AVPR1a). In the current investigation, the gene encoding the related oxytocin receptor (OXTR) was tested for association with the DG and a related paradigm, the Social Values Orientation (SVO) task. |
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| Germany | 2 | 29% |
| Uruguay | 1 | 14% |
| Japan | 1 | 14% |
| Unknown | 3 | 43% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 5 | 71% |
| Scientists | 2 | 29% |
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| United States | 9 | 2% |
| Switzerland | 4 | <1% |
| Germany | 3 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | <1% |
| Italy | 2 | <1% |
| France | 2 | <1% |
| Poland | 2 | <1% |
| Japan | 2 | <1% |
| Canada | 2 | <1% |
| Other | 8 | 2% |
| Unknown | 383 | 91% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 95 | 23% |
| Researcher | 86 | 20% |
| Student > Master | 49 | 12% |
| Student > Bachelor | 36 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 30 | 7% |
| Other | 91 | 22% |
| Unknown | 33 | 8% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Psychology | 163 | 39% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 67 | 16% |
| Neuroscience | 32 | 8% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 29 | 7% |
| Social Sciences | 27 | 6% |
| Other | 50 | 12% |
| Unknown | 52 | 12% |