Study: Single Psychedelic Mushroom Creates Personality Change Lasting Up To 1 Year
Posted by Justin on September 29th, 2011
If you’ve used hallucinogenic mushrooms (active ingredient psilocybin) in the past year, you could still be feeling the effect. Long past peaking, 60% of participants in a Johns Hopkins study found a marked rise in openness a far as a year past initially tripping their faces off.
Openness is defined as such:
…traits related to imagination, aesthetics, feelings, abstract ideas and general broad-mindedness.
The changes were measured against the normal shift in adult personality. Researches said that openness is traditionally something that decreases as one gets older.
Here is another fun fact to the study, more than half of the 51 participants had postgraduate degrees. Higher learning, indeed.
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