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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2022

Classic Psychedelics and Human-Animal Relations.

Elin Pöllänen, Walter Osika, Cecilia U D Stenfors, Otto Simonsson

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Nature Relatedness as an Orientation in Moral Psychology.Integrative psychological & behavioral science · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Elin PöllänenCentre for Psychiatry Research, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, 171 76 Stockholm, Sweden.
Walter OsikaCentre for Psychiatry Research, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, 171 76 Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-1583-7319
Cecilia U D StenforsDepartment of Psychology, Stockholm University, 114 19 Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-8411-0666
Otto SimonssonCentre for Psychiatry Research, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, 171 76 Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0003-4197-7566
Karolinska Institutet · SEStockholm University · SE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Previous research has found associations between classic psychedelic use and nature-relatedness, but the link between classic psychedelic use and human−animal relations remains largely unexplored. Using data representative of the US adult population, with regard to age, sex and ethnicity (N = 2822), this pre-registered study assessed lifetime classic psychedelic use, ego dissolution during respondents’ most intense experience using a classic psychedelic, and three measures related to human−animal relations: speciesism, animal solidarity and desire to help animals. The results showed that lifetime classic psychedelic use was negatively associated with speciesism (β = −0.07, p = 0.002), and positively associated with animal solidarity (β = 0.04, p = 0.041), but no association was found with desire to help animals (β = 0.01, p = 0.542). Ego dissolution during the respondents’ most intense experience using a classic psychedelic was negatively associated with speciesism (β = −0.17, p < 0.001), and positively associated with animal solidarity (β = 0.18, p < 0.001) and desire to help animals (β = 0.10, p = 0.007). The findings indicate that classic psychedelics and ego dissolution may have an impact on human−animal relations. As these results cannot demonstrate causality, however, future studies should use longitudinal research designs to further explore the potential causal link between classic psychedelic use and human−animal relations.

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HallucinogensAnimalsHumansHallucinogenshuman–animal relationsLSDnaturepsilocybinpsychedelics

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PMID35805769
PMCPMC9266040
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