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Luke D. Smillie

2 papers in the library · 114 citations · publishing 2017-2025

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Who Wants to be Mindful? Personality Predictors of Meditation Practice

Mindfulness February 1, 2025 Yana Ryakhovskaya, Nicholas T. van Dam, Luke D. Smillie 2 citations

Abstract Objectives Meditation has received increasing interest from scientists and the public for potential benefits to mental health and well-being. We examined personality predictors and expectancies of meditation to understand who engages with meditation. We also investigated whether personality traits predict interest in information relating to meditation and well-being activities, and...

Seeing it both ways: Openness to experience and binocular rivalry suppression

Journal of Research in Personality March 21, 2017 Anna Antinori, Olivia Carter, Luke D. Smillie 112 citations

Openness to experience is characterised by flexible and inclusive cognition. Here we investigated whether this extends to basic visual perception, such that open people combine information more flexibly, even at low-levels of perceptual processing. We used binocular rivalry, where the brain alternates between perceptual solutions and times where neither solution is fully suppressed, mixed...