Alcohol Dependence Associated with Increased Utilitarian Moral Judgment: A Case Control Study
Figure 2
Moral judgments of the personal moral dilemmas, further subdivided into low- and high-conflict respectively.
The proportion of ‘yes’ responses are shown for the two groups. Alcohol dependent patients were more likely than healthy controls to respond ‘yes’, i.e. endorsing the proposed utilitarian action, when faced with the high-conflict dilemmas (P = 0.036), while the difference was less pronounced for the low-conflict dilemmas (P = 0.063). Error bars indicate 95% confidence intervals.