Situational and Dispositional Factors of Positive Emotionality - The Role of Oxytocin in Psychosocial Stress

Oxytocin in known to be connected with positive emotionality. Recently it has also gained interest as a potential stress marker. Positive Psychological Interventions (PPI) heighten positive emotionality and wellbeing, but have rarely been investigated in a context of acute stress. Our goal is to investigate associations between oxytocin, reactivity to positive stimuli, positive emotionality and its changeability in a setting of acute stress including multiple biological methods (molecular genetics, endocrinology …).