Alcohol and morality: one alcoholic drink is enough to make people declare to harm others and behave impurely.

ABSTRACT: We aimed to understand if alcohol intoxication affects the willingness to violate moral foundations (care, fairness, authority, loyalty, and purity). We conducted a laboratory study (N = 387) with three randomized groups: alcohol intoxication, placebo, and control, measuring the sacralization of moral foundations via the Moral Foundations Sacredness Scale. The study showed intoxicated participants sacralized moral foundations of care and purity more often than participants from control and placebo groups. It means participants declared more willing to physically harm other people and animals and behave impurely, e.g., doing deviant sexual behaviors or selling their souls. No differences related to fairness, authority, and loyalty were found. Our study helps to understand the decision proce

SUBMITTER: Paruzel-Czachura M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10506948 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature