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  • Neuroscience
  • Social Psychology
  • Psychopharmacology

Background:

  • Inferring mental states from social cues is vital for human interaction.
  • The neuropeptide oxytocin is known to influence social approach behaviors in mammals.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the effect of oxytocin on the ability to infer mental states from social cues.
  • To determine if oxytocin administration improves performance on the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (RMET).

Main Methods:

  • A double-blind, placebo-controlled, within-subject study.
  • 30 healthy male volunteers received intranasal oxytocin (24 IU) or placebo.
  • Participants completed the RMET to assess mental state inference from eye region cues.

Main Results:

  • Oxytocin significantly improved RMET performance compared to placebo.
  • The enhancement in performance was more pronounced for difficult test items.

Conclusions:

  • Oxytocin administration enhances the ability to infer mental states from subtle social cues in the eye region.
  • Findings suggest a potential role for oxytocin in social cognition and its implications for autism spectrum disorder.