The article reports on new research examining whether psychedelic use reliably shifts authoritarian attitudes, finding no consistent evidence for such a change across several study designs and participant groups. It highlights limitations like floor effects and the influence of context on psychological outcomes.

This topic is of interest to psychology enthusiasts because it probes how altered states of consciousness interact with political cognition, openness to experience, and social attitudes, while underscoring the importance of robust methodology and replication.

Article Title: New research challenges the idea that psychedelics reduce authoritarian attitudes

Link to PsyPost Article: https://nolinkpreview.com/www.psypost.org/new-research-challenges-the-idea-that-psychedelics-reduce-authoritarian-attitudes/

#psychology #psychedelics #authoritarianism #attitudes #replication #neuroplasticity #setandsetting #politicalpsychology #mentalhealth #researchmethods

⚠️ Conseil de #RdR pour ne pas virer fasciste :

Si tu prends des acides, assure toi pour les premiers voyages #psychédélique d'être AVEC DES GENS DE CONFIANCE

J'crois qu'ils ont merdé quelques #SetAndSetting dans la Silicon Valley (et pas que là bas !)

Edit : pour les crédits de l'image,

Près de la Capitol One Arena, à Washington, le 20 janvier 2025. ALEX WROBLEWSKI / AFP

(Vu sur le site lemonde.fr)

"Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris, founding director of the Neuroscape #Psychedelics Division at University of California, talks about his #psychedelic origins: studying Freud, Jung, and eventually Stan Grof and depth psychology to try and better understand the unconscious. He discusses the cultural shifts he’s noticed, as well as what he’s working on today: researching the influence of psychedelics on #setandsetting."

https://pca.st/episode/1f128cc0-fd75-4d02-af24-9ca1ce70b1ea

Culture is a much better conduit for #psychedelics than medicine. Doctors don't get #setANDsetting.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@eliasulrich/111994771170343843

"they recontextualized this highly #psychedelic thing [#VR] with a very different #SetAndSetting:

Instead of the #counterculture #SetAndSetting and 'how we gonna connect together as people and design reality',

It was the #Internet SetAndSetting and 'how we gonna use this technology to extract value from people and places in order to grow the #stockmarket forever'.

We are living on a psychedelic substrate, with a SetAndSetting of extractive #CorporateCapitalism."

https://teamhuman.fm/episodes/ep-134-team-human-live-vrto-with-keram-malicki-sanchez-and-amelia-winger-bearskin/