Watts Connectedness Scale

Watts, Rosalind; Kettner, Hannes; Geerts, Dana; Gandy, Sam; Kärtner, Laura; Mertens, Lea J.; Timmermann, Christopher; Nour, Matthew M.; Kaelen, Mendel; Nutt, David; Carhart‐Harris, Robin; Roseman, Leor

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“…Following stimulus viewing, participants were queried on: their affective state (arousal, valence, mood); whether they liked the video; whether they had seen the video before; whether they experienced chills; how intensely they experienced chills (0-100); and whether they experienced goosebumps. Last, they filled out three questionnaires measuring facets of self-transcendence: ego-dissolution (Ego-Dissolution Index;Nour, et al, 2016); connectedness (the Watts Connectedness Scale, Watts et al, 2022); and moral elevation (State Moral Elevation Scale;McGuire et al, 2022).…”

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Individual Differences in Aesthetic Experience Point to the Role of Bodily Awareness in Political Orientation

Christov-Moore,

Schoeller,

Vaccaro

et al. 2024

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Aesthetic chills are a peak emotion characterized by shivers down the spine and goosebumps in response to salient stimuli such as music, speech, or films. In a previous study exposing a large number of Southern California participants (n=2947) to pre-validated audiovisual stimuli, we observed a strong correlation between the intensity of self-reported chills and political orientation, with more conservative participants reporting more intense chills (despite no difference in chills likelihood). We performed this current, pre-registered, follow-up study to examine whether this correlation was due to religiosity (which frequently accompanies conservatism, particularly in the USA), and/or being among a cultural minority (conservative within a largely progressive/liberal context), by assaying demographically matched diverse populations in California (n=620) and central Texas (n=262) with identical stimuli. We also tested for differences in interoceptive awareness via the Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness (MAIA) scale, based on evidence for a link between conservatism and disgust sensitivity. We found that the originally observed negative correlation between the intensity of chills and political conservatism was replicated in two locations, however, this relationship appears to be underlied by religiosity and interoceptive awareness, as well as mood prior to stimulus exposure and does not appear to be a function of the political make-up of the locations (or minority political status). This study lends novel nuance to our understanding of the relationship between political orientations, religiosity, interoceptive awareness, and engagement with emotional stimuli.

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“…The WCS is a new three-dimensional index of felt connectedness that may sensitively measure therapeutically relevant psychological changes post-psychedelic use (Watts et al, 2022). Items cluster into connectedness to self (e.g., "My mind felt connected to my heart/emotion.…”

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confidence: 99%