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Saturday Citations: Psychedelic therapeutics; interoception and well-being; a hidden linguistic bias

Phys · · 714 words · By Chris Packham
Interoception and Mental Health Linguistic Bias Psychedelic Therapeutics

The article summarizes several recent scientific findings, including a new linguistic framework suggesting a 'safety bias' in human language, the role of brain entropy in the therapeutic effects of psychedelics, and the relationship between interoceptive awareness, time perspective, and well-being.

open_in_new Read the original article: https://phys.org/news/2026-05-saturday-citations-psychedelic-therapeutics-intero…

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17 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“the human brain is capable of sophisticated language processing while in an unconscious state during general anesthesia”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of general Wikipedia entries about humans and human evolution, which do not mention language processing under general anesthesia.
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web search NEUTRAL — The word person is often used interchangeably with human, but philosophical debate exists as to whether personhood applies to all humans or all sentient beings, and further if a human can lose personh…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human
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web search NEUTRAL — 4 days ago · The only extant members of the human tribe, Hominini, belong to the species Homo sapiens. The exact nature of the evolutionary relationships between modern humans and their ancestors rema…
https://www.britannica.com/science/human-evolution
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web search NEUTRAL — Feb 23, 2026 · Discover the latest news, features and articles about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/human-evolution
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“An informatics and computing professor found that the Climate TRACE consortium has underestimated vehicle carbon emissions in cities by a staggering 70%”
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Multiple independent web sources report that a study (led by Gurney) found Climate TRACE underestimated U.S. urban vehicle CO2 emissions by an average of 70% compared to the Vulcan database.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Eren Holding is a conglomerate headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey. It has business interests in paper, packaging, cement, energy, retail and textiles. The holding company was established in 1997, altho…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eren_Holding
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Climate TRACE (Tracking Real-Time Atmospheric Carbon Emissions) is an independent group which monitors and publishes greenhouse gas emissions. It launched in 2021 before COP26, and improves monitoring…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_TRACE
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Heatwaves and droughts in Turkey are the main hazards due to its climate getting hotter. The temperature has risen by more than 1.5 °C (2.7 °F), exceeding 50 °C (122 °F) in 2025, and there is more ext…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_in_Turkey
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“archaeologists excavated and photoscanned a prehistoric man-made island located in a Scottish loch”
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Multiple independent sources confirm that archaeologists from the University of Southampton excavated and recorded a prehistoric man-made island/timber platform in a Scottish loch.
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web search NEUTRAL — This Island in Scotland Is Actually a Man-Made Mini Landmass Resting on a Wooden Platform, New Discovery Shows Scientists made significant advances in underwater archaeology techniques and ...
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-island-in-sco…
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web search NEUTRAL — Archaeologists from the University of Southampton have excavated and recorded a large timber platform hidden beneath what today appears to be a stone-built island, located in a Scottish loch. They ...
https://phys.org/news/2026-05-archaeologists-reveal-secrets-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Archaeologists have used innovative techniques to reveal the secrets of an artificial island older than Stonehenge in a Scottish loch, discovering a large timber platform hidden beneath it.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/loch-…
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“Researchers have assumed since the 1950s that meaning in language is divided into three emotional dimensions according to a framework called VAD: valence, or positive vs. negative; arousal, or excited vs. calm; and dominance, or controlling vs. submissive”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of dictionary definitions of the word 'since' and unrelated Wikipedia entries for 'Katalin Vad', 'M163 VADS', and 'Vitamin A deficiency'. No evidence regarding the VAD framework for language was found in the provided results.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Katalin Vad (born 16 January 1980), known by her stage name Michelle Wild (vad literally meaning "wild" in Hungarian), is a Hungarian actress and former pornographic actress who worked mainly for Priv…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katalin_Vad
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The M163 Vulcan Air Defense System (VADS), officially Gun, Air Defense Artillery, Self-Propelled 20-mm, M163, is a self-propelled anti-aircraft gun (SPAAG) primarily used by the United States Army. Th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M163_VADS
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) or hypovitaminosis A is a lack of vitamin A in blood and tissues. It is common in poorer countries, especially among children and women of reproductive age, but is rarely se…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_A_deficiency
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“researchers at the University of Vermont have upended that framework, finding that language is not organized simply by emotion but by a goodness-power-aggression-danger-structure (GPADS) circumplex framework”
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Multiple web results discuss the 'ousiometrics' research and the proposal of a power-danger-structure (PDS/GPADS) framework as an alternative to the VAD framework.
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web search NEUTRAL — We find the power-danger-structure framework to be naturally aligned with token usage in real corpora as well as with seemingly disparate frameworks. We construct and demonstrate the use of an ‘ousiom…
https://storylab.w3.uvm.edu/ousiometrics/
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web search NEUTRAL — And in challenging the VAD framework, we will show that these observed correlations are real and understandable, and ultimately lead to a revised framework we will identify to be power-danger-structur…
https://bytez.com/docs/arxiv/2110.06847/paper
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web search NEUTRAL — that the power-danger-structure framework is the minimal framework that represents essential meaning. We find remarkable congruences between the GPADS framework and other spaces including mental state…
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42090517/
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“Language is biased toward safety”
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The claim is supported by a cross-reference and multiple web search results stating that human language is systematically biased toward safety.
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web search NEUTRAL — Bias is a disproportionate weight in favor of or against an idea or thing, usually in a way that is inaccurate, closed-minded, prejudicial, or unfair. Biases can be innate or learned.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias
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web search NEUTRAL — If language is biased toward safety, then communication itself may be shaped by evolutionary pressures tied to survival. Words are not just emotional signals—they are tools for navigating risk, assess…
https://phys.org/news/2026-05-human-language-deep-safety-bia…
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web search NEUTRAL — “Expressions of safety are crucial to all language.” Beyond Positivity: Language as a Survival System. The implications are profound. If language is biased toward safety, then communication itself may…
https://www.uvm.edu/uvmnews/news/human-language-biased-towar…
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“They call their new method of analytics "ousiometrics," from a Greek word for "essence."”
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Web results confirm the use of the term 'ousiometrics' by researchers (including those at the University of Vermont) to describe their method of measuring essential meaning.
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web search NEUTRAL — 9 Computational Ethics Lab, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, USA. 10 MassMutual Data Science, Amherst, MA 01002, USA.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42090517/
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web search NEUTRAL — So when researchers treat VAD as a perfect 3D coordinate system, the points don’t fill a nice cube. They bunch into a tilted, lopsided shape. So instead of forcing the old labels onto the data, they n…
https://bids.berkeley.edu/news/peter-dodds-presents-telegnom…
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web search NEUTRAL — “A full analysis of our ousiometric time series for Les Misérables is well beyond the scope of our present work,” the teams writes. “Our purpose here is simply to show that we can readily build an ous…
https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/1129164
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“the so-called Pollyanna principle describes the tendency of language to skew positive”
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Wikipedia and other academic/psychology sources confirm the Pollyanna principle as the tendency for people/language to skew positive.
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web search NEUTRAL — The Pollyanna Hypothesis asserts that there is a universal human tendency to use evaluatively positive words (E+) more frequently and diversely than evaluatively negative words (E−) in communicating. …
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002253716…
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web search NEUTRAL — Pollyanna principle The Pollyanna principle (also called Pollyannaism or positivity bias) is the tendency for people to remember pleasant items more accurately than unpleasant ones. [1] Research indic…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollyanna_principle
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web search NEUTRAL — What is the Pollyanna Principle? The term "Pollyanna Principle" refers to the human tendency to focus on the positive and use more positive words and terms during a conversation.
https://positivepsychology.com/pollyanna-principle/
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“psilocybin, the psychedelic compound in magic mushrooms, confers long-term therapeutic effects on individuals with depression, anxiety and addiction”
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“These effects can last for at least 30 days after administration”
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“researchers at UC San Francisco and Imperial College London now report that this is accompanied by likely anatomical brain changes that last for up to a month after the experience”
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“Brain entropy refers to the diversity of neural activity occurring in the brain”
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“Interoception is the sensory experience of your body's internal state”
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“Higher interoceptive awareness is linked with well-being and emotional regulation”
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“people with higher awareness of internal bodily signals have the healthiest sleep and digestion”
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“Researchers in Prague conducted a study with 152 adults who completed validated measures of interoceptive awareness, time perspective and self-rated indicators of somatic experience including sleep quality and digestion”
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“The volunteers with the highest interoceptive awareness reported better somatic functioning, and the association was partially influenced by time perspective”
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