When less is more: mindfulness predicts adaptive affective responding to rejection via reduced prefrontal recruitment
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience May 24, 2018 Alexandra Martelli, David Chester, Kirk Warren Brown et al. 31 citations
Social rejection is a distressing and painful event that many people must cope with on a frequent basis. Mindfulness-defined here as a mental state of receptive attentiveness to internal and external stimuli as they arise, moment-to-moment-may buffer such social distress. However, little research indicates whether mindful individuals adaptively regulate the distress of rejection-or the neural...