Rominger Christian, Subow Carolina
Department of Psychology, University of Graz, Graz, Austria.
PLoS One. 2025 Apr 11;20(4):e0320755. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0320755. eCollection 2025.
Psychedelic drugs can increase health, wellbeing, and even boost cognitive functions such as creativity. Beyond this, previous studies indicated that psychedelic drug intake can increase the sense of connectedness to the world, to others, and to the self. The present preregistered cross-sectional online survey investigated whether the link between psychedelic drug use and creativity (as a potential and real-life creativity) takes place due to the increased sense of connectedness in psychedelic drug users. We collected data of 326 participants (187 psychedelic users and 139 non-users), who worked on an alternate uses task and answered questionnaires assessing real-life creativity, sense of connectedness, the experience of meaningful coincidences, as well as life satisfaction and affect. In line with all preregistered hypotheses, we found that psychedelic drug users showed a higher sense of connectedness, higher creative potential (i.e., originality, fluency), and more creative activities (at a trend). Furthermore, feelings of connectedness (to the self and to the world) were associated with the originality of ideas and real-life creativity, and connectedness to the self partially mediated the difference in the originality of ideas between the psychedelic drug users and non-users. Life satisfaction and positive affect were not significantly higher in psychedelic users but were positively linked to connectedness, creativity, and to synchronicity experiences. These findings provide evidence for the association between self-reported psychedelic drug use and creativity and strengthen the role of connectedness (to the self) as a potential psychological reason why psychedelics might enhance creativity.
迷幻药物可以增进健康、提升幸福感，甚至增强诸如创造力等认知功能。除此之外，先前的研究表明，摄入迷幻药物可以增强与世界、他人以及自我的联结感。本项预先注册的横断面在线调查研究了迷幻药物使用与创造力（作为一种潜在的和现实生活中的创造力）之间的联系是否是由于迷幻药物使用者联结感的增强所致。我们收集了326名参与者（187名迷幻药物使用者和139名非使用者）的数据，他们完成了一项替代用途任务，并回答了评估现实生活中的创造力、联结感、有意义巧合的体验以及生活满意度和情感的问卷。与所有预先注册的假设一致，我们发现迷幻药物使用者表现出更高的联结感、更高的创造潜力（即新颖性、流畅性）以及更多的创造性活动（呈一种趋势）。此外，（与自我和世界的）联结感与想法的新颖性和现实生活中的创造力相关，并且与自我的联结感部分介导了迷幻药物使用者和非使用者在想法新颖性上的差异。迷幻药物使用者的生活满意度和积极情感并没有显著更高，但与联结感、创造力以及同步性体验呈正相关。这些发现为自我报告的迷幻药物使用与创造力之间的关联提供了证据，并强化了（与自我的）联结感作为迷幻药物可能增强创造力的潜在心理原因的作用。
