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A registered replication study on oxytocin and trust [Registered Report Stage 1 Protocol]

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posted on 2020-04-02, 08:52 authored by Carolyn Declerck, Christophe Boone, Loren Pauwels, Bodo Vogt, Ernst Fehr
In an influential paper, Kosfeld et al. (2005) showed that intranasal administration of Oxytocin (OT) increases the transfers made by investors in the trust game – suggesting that OT increases trust in strangers. While subsequent studies investigating the role of OT in the trust game found inconclusive effects on the trusting behavior of investors, they deviated from the Kosfeld et al. study in an important way as they did not implement a minimal social contact between the investors and the trustees in the trust game. Here, we will carry out a large double blind and placebo controlled replication study of the effects of OT on trusting behavior that implements the minimal social contact condition and compares it with a no‐ social‐contact condition. The sample generates a power of more than 95% to detect a true effect of OT on trusting behavior in the trust game.

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University of Zurich

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2018-10-19

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