Oxytocin Selectively Improves Empathic Accuracy

Overview

Journal Psychol Sci

Specialty Psychology

Date 2010 Sep 22

PMID 20855907

Citations 146

Authors

Jennifer A Bartz

Jamil Zaki

Niall Bolger

Eric Hollander

Natasha N Ludwig

Alexander Kolevzon

Kevin N Ochsner

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