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Investigate how variations in psychosis-risk and spirituality influence the phenomenology, emotional valence, and distress associated with felt presence experiences.

August 20, 2026Psychosis

Phenomenology of felt presence across degrees of psychosis-risk and spirituality

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TBTatiana BaxterVanderbilt University SPSohee ParkSoongsil University

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Cross-sectional survey reveals altered felt presence characteristics across psychosis-risk and spirituality levels, highlighting complex interactions shaping hallucinatory phenomenology.

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Investigate how variations in psychosis-risk and spirituality influence the phenomenology, emotional valence, and distress associated with felt presence experiences.
Administered an anonymous online survey utilizing validated psychometric measures of felt presence, spirituality, and psychosis-risk among 337 participants.
Both elevated psychosis-risk and higher spirituality independently associated with more frequent, vivid, and distressing felt presence experiences.
Positive emotional valence during felt presence episodes was more strongly linked to psychosis-risk than to spirituality.

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Baxter et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a86b5da8a91293e6a1cd55d https://doi.org/10.1080/17522439.2026.2692077

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Cross-sectional survey reveals altered felt presence characteristics across psychosis-risk and spirituality levels, highlighting complex interactions shaping hallucinatory phenomenology.

Phenomenology of felt presence across degrees of psychosis-risk and spirituality

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Phenomenology of felt presence across degrees of psychosis-risk and spirituality

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