[Matt Dorsey]

Hi Sebastian,

That’s incredibly interesting. Before I got into Chinese / Integrative medicine, I did a BS in psychology and was considering doing a master’s so that I could do psychedelic research (and/or become a therapist).

I’m not familiar with any psychometric scales that are used for this purpose, but I wonder if you could also use some kind of test that can infer L/H balance.

For example, you could assess novel metaphor comprehension. In the paper ‘Activating the Right Hemisphere Through Left-Hand Muscle Contraction Improves Novel Metaphor Comprehension’, the researchers demonstrated that repeated left hand contraction was in fact able to increase volunteer’s ability to pick up on new metaphors.

[Sebastian Ehmann]

Hey Matt, thanks for your reply!

Unfortunately, with the type of study design, I am doing, I am constrained to a questionnaire-type format. I know it is not optimal, but I wondered if there are some decent ones. There are a couple of learning and thinking styles that assess self-reported behaviors related to intuitivity, etc. The most promising I have found so far was the youth SOLAT (Style of Learning and Thinking). However, the scientific credibility is not really validated, and I have difficulty finding the full version in the first place. I was even thinking about using something like this https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.756079/full

However, I am aware of its suboptimality of it. I wish Iain had some insight on this.

Best,

Sebastian