Differences between the experimental, placebo, and control groups
Descriptive statistics of the Moral Foundations Sacredness Scale for all study groups are presented in Table Descriptive statistics of Moral Foundations Sacredness Scale for three study groupsResponses on the Moral Foundations Sacredness Scale were submitted to a 3 (Alcohol Group: alcohol/ no alcohol/ placebo, between-subjects) × 5 (Foundation: Care/ Fairness/ Loyalty/ Authority/ Purity, within-subjects) mixed ANOVA. The main effect of the Alcohol Group was not significant, Main effects observed in the studyPost hoc comparisons with Tukey corrections indicated that participants in the control condition scored higher in care than participants in the experimental condition did (Next, we conducted exploratory analyses, excluding participants who correctly guessed that they were in the placebo condition, and we observed the same pattern of results for care 