Self-awareness is a pivotal component of conscious experience. It is correlated with a
paralimbic network of medial prefrontal/anterior cingulate and medial parietal/posterior …

Highlights•Self-construals mediate cultural group differences in brain activity.•Priming
interdependent or independent self-construals modulates brain activity.•Self-construals …

Recent brain imaging research has revealed oxytocin (OT) effects on an individual's brain
activity during social interaction but tells little about whether and how OT modulates the …

Humans are inherently social beings. Being suggestible to each other's expectations
enables pro‐social skills that are crucial for social learning and adaptation. Despite their …

Essentially all social species experience social stress which can be a catalyst for detriments
in mental and physical health. The neuropeptide oxytocin (OXT) has been shown to produce …

Recent evidence suggests that the association between oxytocin receptor polymorphism
(OXTR rs53576) and emotion-related behavioral/psychological tendencies differs between …

How is the human brain shaped by our sociocultural experiences? What neural correlates
underlie the extraordinary cultural diversity of human behavior? How do our genes interact …

Abstract Purpose of Review Self-awareness can be defined as the capacity of becoming the
object of one's own awareness and, increasingly, it has been the target of scientific inquiry …

The oxytocin (OT) system, critically involved in social bonding, may also impinge on
spirituality, which is the belief in a meaningful life imbued with a sense of connection to a …

The concept of self and self‐referential processing has a growing explanatory value in
psychiatry and neuroscience, referring to the cognitive organization and perceptual …