Daniel R. Berry

Does Brief Mindfulness Instruction Improve Intergroup Attitudes in an Interethnic Dyadic Perspective-giving and Perspective-taking Interaction?

Race and Social Problems January 30, 2026 Katie Rodriguez, Grace Kinsky, Theresa Ngan Nguyen et al.

Abstract Interethnic relations are often characterized by power asymmetries, reduced empathy and compassion, and less favorable intergroup attitudes. This study examined whether brief mindfulness instruction could improve the quality of a dyadic perspective-giving and perspective-taking interaction. In a virtual setting, power-asymmetric dyads (Latinx and White non-Latinx participants) were...

DOI: 10.1007/s12552-026-09496-y (opens in new tab) Full text (opens in new tab) Mindfulness Empathy Empathic concern Social dominance orientation +7

Comparing impacts of meditation training in focused attention, open monitoring, and mindfulness‐based cognitive therapy on emotion reactivity and regulation: Neural and subjective evidence from a dismantling study

Psychophysiology February 19, 2022 Kirk Warren Brown, Daniel R. Berry, Kristina Eichel et al. 38 citations

Commonly conducted mindfulness-based trainings such as Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) highlight training in two key forms of meditation: focused attention (FA) and open monitoring (OM). Largely unknown is what each of these mindfulness practices contributes to emotional and other important training outcomes. This dismantling trial...

DOI: 10.1111/psyp.14024 (opens in new tab) Mindfulness meditation Reactivity psychology Cognition Psychotherapist +1

Short-Term Training in Mindfulness Predicts Helping Behavior Toward Racial Ingroup and Outgroup Members

Social Psychological and Personality Science November 18, 2021 Daniel R. Berry, Catherine S. J. Wall, Justin D. Tubbs et al. 29 citations

A randomized controlled trial tested whether mindfulness training would increase lab-based and in vivo spontaneous helping behaviors toward racial outgroup members. First, across conditions, those scoring higher in baseline trait mindfulness showed higher levels of preintervention lab-based and ecological momentary assessment (EMA)-based helping behavior. Next, short-term (4-day) training in...

DOI: 10.1177/19485506211053095 (opens in new tab) Ingroups and outgroups Trait Mindfulness meditation Developmental psychology +1

Mindfulness increases prosocial responses toward ostracized strangers through empathic concern.

Journal of Experimental Psychology General 2018 Daniel R. Berry, Athena H. Cairo, Robert J. Goodman et al. 176 citations

Four studies tested the proposition that mindfulness and its training fostered prosociality toward ostracized strangers. In discovery Study 1, dispositional mindfulness predicted greater empathic concern for, and more helping behavior toward, an ostracized stranger. Using an experimental design, Study 2 revealed that very briefly instructed mindfulness, relative to active control instructions,...

DOI: 10.1037/xge0000392 (opens in new tab) Mindfulness Prosocial behavior Empathic concern Psycinfo +4

Manipulating attention via mindfulness induction improves P300-based brain–computer interface performance

Journal of Neural Engineering March 24, 2011 Chad E. Lakey, Daniel R. Berry, Eric W. Sellers 88 citations

In this study, we examined the effects of a short mindfulness meditation induction (MMI) on the performance of a P300-based brain-computer interface (BCI) task. We expected that MMI would harness present-moment attentional resources, resulting in two positive consequences for P300-based BCI use. Specifically, we believed that MMI would facilitate increases in task accuracy and promote the...

DOI: 10.1088/1741-2560/8/2/025019 (opens in new tab)