Psychology Archives
October 22, 2026
Lukas Andreas Basedow, Andreas Reis, Irina Falkenberg et al.
Background: Shame is a component that contributes to psychopathology yet few interventions target it directly. Psychedelic-assisted therapy has been investigated as an intervention targeting shame and its associated burden. As part of psychedelic efficacy is mediated by expectation effects the true effect a psychedelic intervention may provide is unknown. Here we examined whether a psychedelic...
Psychology Archives
September 30, 2026
Hüseyin Beyköylü, Merijn Mestdagh, Fred Hasselman et al.
Derived results from an observational study of fourteen adults attending legal psilocybin truffle retreats in the Netherlands. Includes the per-participant time series of the collective variable, dynamic complexity and detected levels; the per-participant summary table; item diagnostics and collective variable validation; the timing of destabilization; two sensitivity analyses; the full...
Psychology Archives
September 18, 2026
Lukas A Basedow
Resulting models from the Bayesian regression analyses in the associated manuscript. These can be directly loaded in R.
Psychology Archives
September 16, 2026
Lukas A Basedow, Andreas Reis, Irina Falkenberg et al.
The intensity of altered states of consciousness (ASC) induced by a psychedelic represents a key mechanism underlying the therapeutic effects of psychedelic-assisted therapy (PAT). However, growing evidence suggests that expectations may contribute significantly to therapeutic effects of PAT. The present study examined whether a psychedelic placebo could induce an ASC in a PAT- analogous...
Psychology Archives
September 1, 2026
Dennis Nicholson
Overview chapter of a book that argues that the hard problem of consciousness is epistemological, perspectival, and resolvable, rather than ontological and irresolvable. The brain as we see and otherwise sense it is the reality as known rather than the reality as such. If the same is true of our conscious experiences, it becomes possible that the hard problem is epistemological and resolvable....
Psychology Archives
January 23, 2026
José-Luis Mendívil-Giró
Bernd Bierl eloquently proposes an ambitious synthesis towards biological linguistics. This synthesis aims to establish a new bio-ethological linguistics based on 4E cognition. It considers the foundational ethology of authors like Konrad Lorenz and Nikolaas Tinbergen to be its biological basis. Rather than developing the biolinguistics inspired by Noam Chomsky, which also has its roots in...