From early in life, human infants appear capable of taking others' perspectives, and can do
so even when the other's perspective conflicts with the infant's perspective. Infants' success …

The mentalizing approach to the development and treatment of psychopathology has gained
momentum in recent years. Mentalizing (or reflective functioning) refers to the human …

The concept of self and self‐referential processing has a growing explanatory value in
psychiatry and neuroscience, referring to the cognitive organization and perceptual …

Social communication depends on our ability to understand others' emotions, motives, and
intentions. In order to understand others' experiences accurately, we often rely on our own …

Intranasal oxytocin (OXT) has been associated with effects on diverse social-emotional
domains in humans, however progress towards a therapeutic application of OXT in …

Rationale Oxytocin has been found to play an important role in human social cognition and
social interaction. Over the last two decades, surge studies have been conducted to …

Oxytocin (OT) is known to play a major role in social cognition and behavior. In this study, we
aimed to investigate whether OT also affects the motivational system, specifically, the …

By making use of event-related potential (ERP) technology, a randomized, double-blind,
between-subject design study was performed in order to investigate whether OXT can …

Alexithymia is a subclinical personality disorder characterized by difficulties in identifying
and expressing one's own emotion. Individual differences in alexithymia are influenced by …

Intranasal oxytocin (OXT) has been associated with effects on diverse social-emotional
domains in humans, however progress in the field is currently hampered by poor …