Effects of psilocybin microdosing on awe and aesthetic experiences: a preregistered field and lab-based study
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00023752%3A_____%2F22%3A43920580" target="_blank" >RIV/00023752:_____/22:43920580 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/60461373:22330/21:43922267
Result on the web
<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00213-021-05857-0" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00213-021-05857-0</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00213-021-05857-0" target="_blank" >10.1007/s00213-021-05857-0</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Effects of psilocybin microdosing on awe and aesthetic experiences: a preregistered field and lab-based study
Original language description
There is an increased societal trend to engage in microdosing, in which small sub-hallucinogenic amounts of psychedelics are consumed on a regular basis. Following subjective reports that microdosing enhances the experience of nature and art, in the present study we set out to study the effects of psilocybin microdosing on feelings of awe and art perception. In this preregistered combined field- and lab-based study, participants took part in a microdosing workshop after which they volunteered to self-administer a psilocybin microdose or a placebo for three consecutive weeks, while the condition was kept blind to the participants and researchers. Following a 2-week break, the condition assignment was reversed. During each block, participants visited the lab twice to measure the effects of psilocybin microdosing vs. placebo. We used standardized measures of awe, in which participants reported their experiences in response to short videos or when viewing abstract artworks from different painters. Our confirmatory analyses showed that participants felt more awe in response to videos representing funny animals and moving objects in the microdosing compared to the placebo condition. However, about two-third of our participants were breaking blind to their experimental condition. Our exploratory findings suggest that expectancy-effects may be a driving factor underlying the subjective benefits of microdosing.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
30103 - Neurosciences (including psychophysiology)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Psychopharmacology
ISSN
0033-3158
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
239
Issue of the periodical within the volume
6
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
16
Pages from-to
1705-1720
UT code for WoS article
000645480700001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85105504000