Experimental data exploring the effects of intranasal oxytocin on young adult social preference and attachment to romantic partners, parents, friends, and strangers.

Experimental studies exploring the effects of intranasal oxytocin are typically underpowered due to small samples. Open access to experimental data and procedures and the use of previously employed measures is critical to building more robust and replicable findings, especially in less studied areas of oxytocin research. In this paper, data is provided from a double-blind placebo-controlled crossover study exploring the effects of intranasal oxytocin (IN-OT: 24 IU) on social preference to romantic partners, parents, peers, and strangers. Young adults (N=44; 91% female) in committed dating relationships completed three phases of data collection including a screening survey followed by two laboratory visits. In addition to romantic partner-, and stranger attraction ratings, the data is the first to provide comparisons between attachment and social preference ratings to parents, close friends, and romantic partners under placebo and IN-OT conditions. The data also include differences by situational and life history factors known to moderate oxytocin effects. The detailed protocol, and dataflow can be accessed to verify the analysis and findings or to conduct a replication study. The standardized experimental design and common IN-OT protocol add to the capacity for a meta-analysis exploring oxytocin effects on partner preference, and may also be directly ported to existing or future studies with related questions to increase sample size and power.

实验性研究探究鼻腔内注射催产素的效果，往往因样本量小而存在不足。开放获取实验数据和程序，以及采用先前使用的措施，对于构建更加稳健且可重复的研究成果至关重要，尤其是在催产素研究较少涉及的领域。本文提供了来自一项双盲安慰剂交叉对照研究的数据，该研究旨在探讨鼻腔内注射催产素（IN-OT：24 IU）对浪漫伴侣、父母、同龄人和陌生人的社会偏好影响。参与研究的年轻成年人（N=44；91%为女性）处于稳定恋爱关系中，他们完成了包括筛选调查在内的三个阶段的数据收集，随后进行了两次实验室访问。除了对浪漫伴侣和陌生人的吸引力评分外，这些数据还是首次提供了在安慰剂和IN-OT条件下，对父母、亲密朋友和浪漫伴侣的依恋和社交偏好评分的比较。数据还包括了已知调节催产素效应的环境和历史因素的差异。详细的实验方案和数据流程可供查阅，以验证分析和发现，或进行复制研究。标准化的实验设计和共同的IN-OT方案增加了对催产素对伴侣偏好影响的元分析能力，并且可以直接应用于现有或未来的相关研究，以增加样本量和研究力量。