What happened was that the people who self-rated themselves as happy before the experience saw virtually no improvement after the experience. Most of the positive outcomes were due to the people who stated they were distressed before the experience.

Also, this link is not pay walled, btw.

[–] bitteroldcoot@piefed.social 11 points 1 week ago

from the actual study:

"In contrast the only statistically significant effect we find for non-distressed individuals is a positive, but fleeting, effect on happiness (Figure 2C)."

Pages 17 and 18 of the original study.

https://mattjlowe.github.io/files/Francois%20Lowe%20Matavelli%20(18dec25)%20Psychedelics.pdf

[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Seems subscription walled to me. I only see a useless couple of intro paragraphs. Better to link to the actual study instead of a medium blog.

[–] descartador@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Really? This link should be behind a pay wall: https://medium.com/cabbanis/what-happens-when-a-happy-person-takes-ayahuasca-f793d5685cdf?sk=c6c6098f7d39b352e474a0546fd73795

[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yes, it's behind some kind of wall for me. I don't know for certain that it's a pay wall, it might be available to free subscribers or whatever, but I'm not gonna sign up whether it's paid of not. I dislike Medium and would rather see the study directly than see someone clickbaiting over it.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago

(Sometimes paywalls are geofenced too, I think. Every time I load a NYT article from an NYC IP that may or may not be a VPN exit node, it works, but any other IP they block with the "please subscribe" blocker.)

[–] descartador@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 1 week ago

Here it is, in case it was unaccessible before:

https://mattjlowe.github.io/files/Francois%20Lowe%20Matavelli%20(18dec25)%20Psychedelics.pdf