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Research Name

MORALITY AND ALCOHOL

Research Description

We conducted a series of studies. We found that alcohol did not change how people evaluated themselves (their personality, moral identity, aggressiveness, and intelligence). Moreover, it also did not change how people made moral decisions. On the other hand, we found that drunk respondents were more likely to have a higher intention to do the wrong thing.

Publications:

Paruzel-Czachura, M., Sorokowska, A., & Reed, A. (2023). Drinking alcohol appears to have no impact on self-perceptions of morality, aggressiveness, or intelligence. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/pha0000666

Paruzel-Czachura, M., Pypno, K. & Sorokowski, P. (2023). Alcohol and morality: one alcoholic drink is enough to make people declare to harm others and behave impurely. Psychopharmacology, 240, 2163–2172. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-023-06438-z

Paruzel-Czachura, M., Pypno, K., Everett, J. A. C., Białek, M., & Gawronski, B. (2023). The Drunk Utilitarian Revisited: Does Alcohol Really Increase Utilitarianism in Moral Judgment? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 49, 20-31. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672211052120

Paruzel-Czachura, M., Sorokowska, A., Bianga, P., & Gosling, S. (2023). A strong alcoholic drink does not influence self-assessments of the big five personality traits. Current Psychology, 42, 29726–29733. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-022-04015-9