NCT04890470

Effects of Oxytocin and Vasopressin on Moral Decision Making

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 180 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 30 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

To determine whether the neuropeptide oxytocin (OXT) and vassopressin (AVP) influence moral decision making

Detailed description

In a double-blind, between- subject placebo (PLC) controlled design, subjects will first complete a series of questionnaires in terms of mood, clinical symptoms, and traits. After that their moral judgment and emotion towards both verbal descriptions of moral dilemma scenarios and pictures of specific interpersonal ones will be assessed and the effect of intranasal OXT and AVP between both male and female healthy subjects will be investigated.

Conditions

• Healthy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	Oxytocin	intranasal administration of oxytocin (24 IU)
DRUG	Vasopressin	intranasal administration of vasopressin (20 IU)
DRUG	Placebo	intranasal administration of placebo

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-03-02
• Primary completion: 2022-12-12
• Completion: 2022-12-12
• First posted: 2021-05-18
• Last updated: 2023-09-21

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China