Oxytocin administration & empathy assessment

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    • Oxytocin administration & empathy assessment
      • Ps visited lab twice, a week apart, at the same time, signed an informed consent form
      • P randomly given either oxytocin (24 units in 250ml saline) or placebo (250ml saline)
      • P self-administered 3 droplets to each nostril in the presence of an experimenter
      • P completed the empathy questionnaire Interpersonal Reactivity Index -> waited for 45 min in a quiet room, alone, with some nature magazines -> keep social interaction at minimum -> for oxytocin levels to plateau (stabilise)