Multimodal creativity assessments following acute and sustained microdosing of lysergic acid diethylamide
Despite participants reporting feeling more creative on dose days, objective measurement found no acute or durable effects of the microdosing protocol on creativity. Possible explanations of these null findings are that laboratory testing conditions may negatively affect ability to detect naturalistic differences in creative performance, the tests available do not capture the facets of creativity that are anecdotally affected by microdosing, or that reported enhancements of creativity are placebo effects.
Authors
- Suresh D Muthukumaraswamy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7042-3920)
- Robin J. Murphy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9571-0050)
- Frederick Sundram (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6311-9856)
- Kate Godfrey (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2578-2382)
- Reece P. Roberts (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6760-0981)
- Rachael L. Sumner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2652-4617)
- Acima Mabidikama
Institutions
- University of Auckland (NZ)
- Imperial College London (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Psychopharmacology
- Published
- 2024-09-05
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-024-06680-z
- Citations
- 7
- Primary Topic
- Psychedelics and Drug Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 4.47
Funders
- University of Auckland