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Should Social Psychologists Experiment with Psychedelics?

One question for Sonja Lyubomirsky, a psychologist at UC Riverside. The post Should Social Psychologists Experiment with Psychedelics? appeared first on Nautilus.

One question for Sonja Lyubomirsky, a psychologist at UC Riverside studying the sources and benefits of happiness, and the author of The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want.

Photo courtesy of Sonja Lyubomirsky

Should social psychologists experiment with psychedelics?

Yes. That’s the premise of my recent , “Toward a New Science of Psychedelic

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