In healthy men, intranasal oxytocin lowered the moral responsibility assigned to a hypothetical offender in both deterministic and indeterministic universes compared with placebo.
In plain wordsIn healthy men, oxytocin led to lower moral responsibility ratings for an offender than placebo, in both kinds of universe.
- Peptide
- Oxytocin
- Outcome
- DecreaseMoral responsibility ratings of an offender
- Study
n: not reported in source
- Comparator
- Placebo
- Outcome group
- Social behavior and cognition · Nervous system and cognition
- Studied dose
- Dose not stated · intranasalAs given in this study (human).
Source sentences
Under oxytocin, participants rated the offender's actions with greater leniency and similarly assigned lower moral responsibility in both universes.
2 context sentences(design, population, supporting numbers)
This study investigated the effects of intranasal oxytocin on intuitions about the relationship between free will and moral responsibility by applying a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, between-subject design.
Healthy male participants rated the moral responsibility of a hypothetical offender, who committed crimes in either a primed deterministic or an indeterministic universe.