Michaela Barnett is a Ph.D. fellow in the Behavioral Science for Sustainable Systems program at the Convergent Behavioral Science Initiative at the University of Virginia. She researches sustainable consumption, waste systems, and organizational sustainability. Her writing has appeared in both scientific and creative journals, including Appetite and Alluvian. She is a 2019-2020 graduate student writing fellow at the Behavioral Scientist.
Early in her career, psychologist Wendy Wood noticed a trend: many of her colleagues struggled to get things done. Intelligence, talent, and motivation didn’t seem to matter. She set out to discover why.
Is the hype around microdosing psychedelics justified? We don’t yet know. So far, citizen science has outpaced rigorous research.