Oxytocin predicts positive affect gains in a role-play interaction.

Autor:	Berceanu AI; Cognitive Development and Applied Psychology through Immersive Experiences, LDCAPEI, CINETic Centre, National University of Theatre and Film I. L. Caragiale, Bucharest, Romania.; Department for Animation and Interactivity, National University of Theatre and Film I. L. Caragiale, Bucharest, Romania., Papasteri C; Cognitive Development and Applied Psychology through Immersive Experiences, LDCAPEI, CINETic Centre, National University of Theatre and Film I. L. Caragiale, Bucharest, Romania.; Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania., Sofonea A; Cognitive Development and Applied Psychology through Immersive Experiences, LDCAPEI, CINETic Centre, National University of Theatre and Film I. L. Caragiale, Bucharest, Romania., Boldasu R; Acting Department Theatre Faculty, National University of Theatre and Film I. L. Caragiale, Bucharest, Romania., Nita D; Cognitive Development and Applied Psychology through Immersive Experiences, LDCAPEI, CINETic Centre, National University of Theatre and Film I. L. Caragiale, Bucharest, Romania., Poalelungi C; Cognitive Development and Applied Psychology through Immersive Experiences, LDCAPEI, CINETic Centre, National University of Theatre and Film I. L. Caragiale, Bucharest, Romania.; National Institute of Endocrinology C. I. Parhon, Bucharest, Romania., Froemke R; Cognitive Development and Applied Psychology through Immersive Experiences, LDCAPEI, CINETic Centre, National University of Theatre and Film I. L. Caragiale, Bucharest, Romania.; Skirball Institute for Biomolecular, School of Medicine, New York University, NY, United States., Carcea I; Cognitive Development and Applied Psychology through Immersive Experiences, LDCAPEI, CINETic Centre, National University of Theatre and Film I. L. Caragiale, Bucharest, Romania.; Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers, Brain Health Institute, The State University of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, United States.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Frontiers in psychology [Front Psychol] 2024 May 30; Vol. 15, pp. 1258254. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 May 30 (Print Publication: 2024).
DOI:	10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1258254
Abstrakt:	Introduction: Role-play, a key creative process in theatre, is used in therapeutic interventions to improve social skills, emotion regulation, and memory. Although role-play is widely used as a psychotherapeutic technique, its mechanisms of action are not fully understood. Methods: Our study introduces a standardized controlled procedure for promoting role-play in the laboratory based on the portrayal of a fictional persona and examines its effects on anxiety, affect, prosocial attitudes, and salivary oxytocin dynamics in 38 participants. Results: In our experiment, role-play significantly increased positive affect and prosocial attitudes and decreased anxiety compared to a control condition. Basal salivary oxytocin levels predicted higher gains in positive affect following role-play, suggesting a specific moderating effect of oxytocin. The fictional persona used in the procedure was rated as very happy by subjects, creating a positive social context for the role-play social interaction. Discussions: We propose that the observed moderation effect of oxytocin in our study is specific to the role-play condition due to the capacity of role-play to generate an affective regulatory context based on congruency toward the emotional state of the fictional persona. Our findings indicate that basal oxytocin levels could predict specific outcomes of role-play in therapeutical setting. We discuss several psychological and biological mechanisms that could account for the observed effects of role-play and how oxytocin could act as a substrate for them. Competing Interests: The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. (Copyright © 2024 Berceanu, Papasteri, Sofonea, Boldasu, Nita, Poalelungi, Froemke and Carcea.)
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