Clinical Trial: Role of Oxytocin in Telling and Detecting Lies

Study Status: Withdrawn
Recruit Status: Withdrawn
Study Type: Interventional

Official Title: Role of Oxytocin in Telling and Detecting Lies

Brief Summary: The investigators are interested in the impact of intranasal oxytocin in unethical behavior.

Detailed Summary: The objective of this project is to further explore the role of oxytocin in moral judgment and ethical behavior. Oxytocin is a peptide hormone produced in a variety of hypothalamic neurons. It is released into the brain or brought into general circulation through sensory stimuli in a pulsatile fashion. In social psychology research, oxytocin is hypothesized to coordinate both the causes and effects of positive social interactions in a biofeedback loop.
Sponsor: University of Texas at Austin

Current Primary Outcome: Unethical behavior [ Time Frame: 130 minutes ]

To measure unethical behavior, we will calculate whether participants took more money than they actually earned on a problem-solving task.


Original Primary Outcome: Same as current

Current Secondary Outcome:

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Information By: University of Texas at Austin

Dates:
Date Received: February 5, 2015
Date Started: January 2016
Date Completion:
Last Updated: June 9, 2016
Last Verified: June 2016