Olga Maria Klimecki

Spreading positive change: Societal benefits of meditation.

Frontiers in Psychiatry 2023 Veronika Engert, Olga Maria Klimecki, Philipp Kanske

Research over the past decades has revealed a variety of beneficial effects of meditation training. These beneficial effects span the levels of health and well-being, cognition, emotion, and social behavior. Around the same time, sociologists have shown that traits and outcomes on the individual level have the potential to spread in communities over three or more degrees. This means, for...