Franziska Anna Schroter

2 papers in the library · publishing 2022-2023

Papers

The Impact of a Short Body–Focused Meditation on Body Ownership and Interoceptive Abilities

Mindfulness January 1, 2023 Franziska Anna Schroter, Markus Siebertz, Petra Jansen

A brief body-focused meditation did not directly alter the sense of body ownership as measured by the rubber hand illusion, but it did interact with interoceptive awareness. Participants with high interoceptive awareness—the correspondence between actual heartbeat detection and self-reported confidence—experienced a weaker rubber hand illusion after the meditation. Across all participants, mood improved and interoceptive accuracy and sensibility increased over time, regardless of whether they meditated or listened to an audiobook. The findings suggest that meta-awareness of internal bodily signals may help protect against manipulations of body boundaries.

DOI: 10.1007/s12671-022-02039-7

Making peace with disliked others: the effects of a short loving-kindness meditation on implicit and explicit emotional evaluations.

BMC Psychology April 29, 2022 Franziska Anna Schroter, Petra Jansen

A brief loving-kindness meditation or an imagery task both reduced negative and positive mood in 69 students. For implicit and explicit evaluations of oneself and a disliked public figure, only a significant effect of the picture shown and a trend toward a time-by-group interaction with medium effect sizes were observed. The authors caution that a short intervention's possible influence on emotional evaluations should be treated with caution, and the claim that brief loving-kindness meditation enhances social connectedness might awaken false hopes. They recommend studying longer meditation training and the sustainability of its effects.

DOI: 10.1186/s40359-022-00817-5 Full text Affective priming Explicit attitudes Imagery Implicit attitudes +1