Can psychedelics help us be kinder and more cooperative in our everyday lives?

A significant body of research indicates the promise shown by psychedelics for addressing a range of serious conditions, including PTSD, depression and addiction.

If psychedelics facilitate behaviour change at the level of serious mental illness, might they also facilitate behaviour change in other contexts, for instance influencing people to be more likely to assist or cooperate with others? Or might they make people too trusting, such that others may more readily take advantage of them?

Psychedelics writer Milan Griffes discusses the results from a recent study on MDMA and game theory here, with preliminary findings suggesting that it might increase cooperation "without a concomitant increase in naïvety".