FIGURE 2.

Attribution of consciousness to living and non-living entities after a psychedelic belief-changing experience is greater in those with higher scores on the Mystical Experience Questionnaire (MEQ). Y axis: Rating of agreement with the belief that the entity has capacity for conscious awareness from Disagree (–2) to Strongly agree (+3), with Neither agree nor disagree (0) indicated by dotted line. X axes: categories of living and non-living entities. Data are means (±1 SD); yellow symbols indicate ratings before the experience; green symbols indicate after the experience; triangles and circles indicate the low and high MEQ groups, respectively, with the low group consisting of scores below the median MEQ score. In both the low and high MEQ groups all differences from “Before” to “After” the experience met statistical and effect size criteria for being meaningfully different. Furthermore, with the exception of “Other Humans,” all differences between the low and high MEQ groups met these criteria for being meaningfully different at the “After” timepoint (i.e., the comparison between green triangles and green circles) (Supplementary Material).