Contemplative Practice and Responses to Mortality Salience: Evidence from Long-Term Sufi Meditators
Behavioral Sciences August 26, 2026 Elisa Puvia, Luca Simione, Nima Gholizadeh et al.
Mortality salience research has played a central role in understanding responses to death awareness and existential threat. At the same time, relatively little research has examined whether long-term contemplative practice may shape affective, cognitive, and implicit responses to mortality-related stimuli. The present study investigated these processes in long-term contemplative practitioners...