OXT and alexithymia: The relationship between emotional self-understanding and social cognition has also been supported by the finding that oxytocin improves performance on the Reading the Mind through the Eyes test (RMET) to a greater degree in those individuals who scored higher on a scale of alexithymia (Luminet et al., 2011) and can improve a subjects ability to distinguish self from others (Colonnello et al., 2013).