Annalina V. Mayer

Abstract Healthy individuals typically attribute success to internal and failure to external factors, while people with depression and low self-esteem tend to do the opposite. At the same time, depression and low self-esteem are associated with negatively biased self-related learning and self-beliefs.

Abstract Oxytocin has been proposed to play a role in the development and maintenance of alcohol use disorder (AUD) through its interactions with stress pathways. Empirical evidence that indicates altered associations between endogenous oxytocin and stress reactivity in AUD is currently lacking.

Abstract Time of day influences a variety of human cognitive processes, including attention, executive functions and memory formation, as well as affective experiences and mood. However, circadian modulations of self-related learning and belief formation, which are highly affected by emotional states, remain poorly understood. Here, we present results from exploratory post-hoc analyses on data aggregated from five studies assessing the formation of self-related ability beliefs.