Actions speak louder than words: Towards measuring real-world behaviour change in psychedelic research
Sarah Roche, Kim Pc Kuypers, Joana Wensing et al. preprint
The therapeutic and societal promise often attributed to psychedelic drugs implies meaningful change in real-world behaviour, yet such change is rarely measured directly. Across psychedelic research, outcomes are typically assessed using symptom scales, self-reported psychological states, or retrospective judgments of change, which may capture subjective improvement but do not by themselves...