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existwell@existwell.bsky.social · 2d ago

What does psychedelic science have to learn from social sciences and humanities? We were concerned about reinventing the wheel, but now also about importing historical baggage through outdated theories and under-validated measures. Book event Wednesday in Washington, DC + Zoom

What does psychedelic science have to learn from social sciences and humanities? We were concerned about reinventing the wheel, but now also about importing historical baggage through outdated theories and under-validated measures. Book event Wednesday in Washington, DC + Zoom

What should psychedelic science take - and not take - from other disciplines? Join us in celebrating the book launch of The Oxford Handbook of Psychedelic, Religious, Spiritual, and Mystical Experiences on Wed, Aug 5th from 10am-2pm ET. Attend in-person in Washington DC or virtually on Zoom.

Included in the book and discussion - are the terms that constitute the title of this book even useful?

What does psychedelic science have to learn from social sciences and humanities? We were concerned about reinventing the wheel, but now also about importing historical baggage through outdated theories and under-validated measures. Book event Wednesday in Washington, DC + Zoom

Do you live with chronic low back pain and depression? You’re not alone. Our research team at Johns Hopkins is studying whether psilocybin may help with pain and mood. If you’d like to learn more or see if you qualify, visit the link below. hopkinspsychedelic.org/backpain

Julian Kiverstein, Hüseyin Beyköylü & Michiel van Elk defend a pluralist theory for the causal influence of set and setting on the psychedelic experience doi.org/10.1080/0951... #vol39issue5 8/9

A causal pluralist theory of the interaction of substance, set and setting in psychedelic experience

Psychedelic research has shown that the effects of serotonergic substances, such as psilocybin and LSD, are strongly influenced by the interaction of substance, set, and setting. Mystical-type expe...

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Happy 4th of July! 🇺🇸 🎇 Federalist papers for some fun reading when taking a break from the sun today: guides.loc.gov/federalist-p...

Research Guides: Federalist Papers: Primary Documents in American History: Federalist Nos. 1-10

The Federalist Papers were a series of essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay under the pen name "Publius." This guide compiles Library of Congress digital materials, extern...

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CPCR Associate Professor Dr. David Yaden was interviewed in an article with the Atlantic, providing insights on the safety, efficacy, and opportunities for psychedelic studies: www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...

The New Science of Psychedelic Drugs

University researchers are looking for ways to engineer better mind-altering therapeutic experiences

theatlantic.com

In a recent paper, CPCR researchers analyzed the first full year of data from the Oregon Health Authority, examining how Oregon’s policy has balanced safety and access to psychedelics outside of clinical settings. See the full paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Dr. Tiwari joins the Division of Behavioral Biology and the Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research, where she will conduct both preclinical neuroscience and clinical studies to explore translational research on psychedelics.

Congratulations to Dr. Praachi Tiwari on her promotion to faculty at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine!

I wrote a book! It's called WHY WE ASK WHY, and it's about the human drive to explain, combining psychology, philosophy, and stories. It will be released on October 6, but it's currently available for pre-order from Barnes & Noble at 25% off with code PREORDER25.

Beautiful work on causal generalization and delusion maintenance from @m-meyer.bsky.social now accepted at Schiz Bull - we show people with delusions overgeneralize cause and under generalize its absence, perhaps related to aberrant prediction error: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Society for Philosophy and Psychology @socphilpsych.bsky.social at @jhu.edu this weekend. Stanton award winner @levelsof.bsky.social gave an extraordinary address on her work addressing the question: “when does thought begin?” Elegant experiments with deep implications about how the mind might work

New preprint 🚨 Transformative *Shared* Experience and Collective Decisions: Can We Rationally Choose What You or I Alone Cannot? -- with Isaac Hadfield and Daniel Villiger www.researchgate.net/publication/...

In an open access article Daniel Villiger investigates the role of expectations in transformative experiences doi.org/10.1080/0951...

The role of expectations in transformative experiences

According to L. A. Paul, the subjective value of an outcome is normally assessed by running a cognitive model of what it would be like if that outcome were to occur. However, cognitive models, alon...

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Congratulations, Melissa Kibbe (@levelsof.bsky.social), on winning the Society for Philosophy and Psychology’s 2026 Stanton Prize and, more generally, for your rich research program demonstrating the origins of abstract, generative thought in human infants.

Society for Philosophy and Psychology @socphilpsych.bsky.social at @jhu.edu this weekend. Stanton award winner @levelsof.bsky.social gave an extraordinary address on her work addressing the question: “when does thought begin?” Elegant experiments with deep implications about how the mind might work

Who's excited for #SPP2026 happening at JHU? @socphilpsych.bsky.social

Packed house for the “Nature/Nurture” panel at @socphilpsych.bsky.social! #SPP2026

New work from my lab! Young children find it easier to represent mutually-exclusive possible identities of an object than possible locations of an object - an early object-rep-architecture limitation on possibility reasoning! Work led by @esranur.bsky.social recently accepted in Open Mind ✨

Esra Nur Turan-Küçük@esranur.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New paper in Open Mind! 2-to-4-year-olds find it easier to reason about an object's possible identity than its possible location, and we argue this asymmetry traces back to the architecture of early object representations. 🧵

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s…another creative & impactful project from the rocket-fueled @talboger.bsky.social, applying the wickedly cool “visual anagrams” method to animacy! Read the paper in @elife.bsky.social today, then attend his presentation at @socphilpsych.bsky.social later this week. 🦆✈️

tal boger@talboger.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Do we perceive animacy itself, beyond its lower-level visual correlates? In @elife.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social and I leverage “visual anagrams” — images whose interpretations change with orientation — to suggest the answer is: yes! elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

Yessssss such a great paper, I'm so happy this is officially out!

Gabor Brody@gaborbrody.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Can infants or other animals represent "mutually exclusive possibilities"? In a new paper in JEP:G, we argue for specifying: in thinking or seeing? We show that in object perception (shared with infants and many animals), the answer is yes. (w Peter Mazalik & Roman Feiman) osf.io/preprints/ps... /1

Do we perceive animacy itself, beyond its lower-level visual correlates? In @elife.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social and I leverage “visual anagrams” — images whose interpretations change with orientation — to suggest the answer is: yes! elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

Come find me at SPP (at my poster on June 18) to hear more, or even just to grab a coaster! Demo page here: www.perceptionresearch.org/anagrams_ani...

Final, fancy, official program available for @socphilpsych.bsky.social SPP 2026!! Can't wait to see everyone in Baltimore!! It's been such a blast organizing this program with the wonderful @joshrottman.bsky.social !!! www.socphilpsych.org/pastprograms...

My contribution to Time' magazines 250 ideas for America. There is no such thing as general intelligence- instead many diverse intelligences trading-off time.com/collection/o...

The Science and Health Breakthroughs Shaping a New American Era

TIME asked Bill Nye, Emily Oster, Kizzmekia Corbett-Helaire, and 22 others to tell us about the scientific advances defining the U.S. at 250

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Atlantic article discussing current/novel psychedelics, emphasizing parameters like expectancies, context, compound, dose, etc. There is SO MUCH scientific work to do to improve on preliminary work & explore altering variables that have not yet been tested! www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...

The New Science of Psychedelic Drugs

University researchers are looking for ways to engineer better mind-altering therapeutic experiences

theatlantic.com

Balancing safety and access in Oregon’s psilocybin services. By Katherine Cheung, Caleigh Propes, David Yaden | International Journal of Drug Policy www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...