Effects of psilocybin microdosing on awe and aesthetic experiences: a preregistered field and lab-based study

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00023752:_____/22:43920580

Result on the web

<a href="https://link-springer-com.ezproxy.vscht.cz/article/10.1007%2Fs00213-021-05857-0" target="_blank" >https://link-springer-com.ezproxy.vscht.cz/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>

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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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30104 - Pharmacology and pharmacy

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Psychopharmacology

ISSN

0033-3158

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

neuveden

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2021-05-17

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000645480700001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85105504000