Mindfulness
March 9, 2026
Simon B Goldberg, Zishan Jiwani, Cortland J Dahl et al.
Objectives: Digital technology opens the possibility of providing meditation instruction in the midst of daily activities. This study explores the use of "active" meditation practices which involve meditating while completing daily activities (e.g., folding laundry). Method: We use data from public users of the Healthy Minds Program (HMP) meditation app (N = 26,532, Sample 1) and from a...
Clinical psychology : a publication of the Division of Clinical Psychology of the American Psychological Association
March 1, 2024
Simon B Goldberg, Richard J Davidson
A lot has happened in the 20 years since Baer (2003) published the first meta-analysis of mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) in Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice.The year 2003 was a time before the iPhone, before Facebook, long before the COVID-19 pandemic, and certainly before advances in artificial intelligence brought algorithmdelivered content to our digital devices and large...
npj Mental Health Research
April 18, 2023
Zishan Jiwani, Raquel Tatar, Cortland Dahl et al.
Digital interventions have the potential to alleviate mental health disparities for marginalized and minoritized communities. The current study examined whether disparities in access and utilization of meditation in the United States (US) were reduced for a freely available meditation app. We analyzed demographic and usage data from US-based users of the Healthy Minds Program (HMP; N = 66,482)...
Journal of American college health : J of ACH
July 9, 2021
Karen Kurotsuchi Inkelas, Blake A Colaianne, Matthew J Hirshberg et al.
Objective: This study explores whether variability in the implementation of an undergraduate course on human flourishing is differentially associated with student outcomes. Participants: 101 students in the "Art and Science of Human Flourishing" course across three large, public, R1 universities in Fall 2018 participated in the study. Methods: Formative course data included researcher...
Psychosomatic Medicine
July 1, 2021
Richard J Davidson
Abstract: This commentary for this Special Issue on mindfulness highlights the progress and maturity of this growing field of scientific investigation and points the way toward important questions that require further study. Important methodological and implementation issues including the nature of proper comparison groups, the extension of mindfulness-based interventions to underserved...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
December 7, 2020
Cortland J Dahl, Christine D Wilson-Mendenhall, Richard J Davidson
Research indicates that core dimensions of psychological well-being can be cultivated through intentional mental training. Despite growing research in this area and an increasing number of interventions designed to improve psychological well-being, the field lacks a unifying framework that clarifies the dimensions of human flourishing that can be cultivated. Here, we integrate evidence from...
Neurocase
April 2020
Nagesh Adluru, Cole H Korponay, Derek L Norton et al.
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche (YMR) is a Tibetan Buddhist monk, and renowned meditation practitioner and teacher who has spent an extraordinary number of hours of his life meditating. The brain-aging profile of this expert meditator in comparison to a control population was examined using a machine learning framework, which estimates "brain-age" from brain imaging. YMR's brain-aging rate appeared...
Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology
November 29, 2019
Daniel W Grupe, Chad Mcgehee, Chris Smith et al.
Law enforcement officers are regularly exposed directly and indirectly to a wide variety of traumatic stressors, which take place against a backdrop of high levels of organizational stressors. Consequently, this group is at elevated risk for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other negative physical and mental health outcomes, yet there are few empirically supported interventions to...
Psychophysiology
October 1, 2019
Sahib S Khalsa, David Rudrauf, Mahlega S Hassanpour et al.
Meditation is commonly assumed to be associated with enhanced interoceptive accuracy. We previously found that experienced meditators did not exhibit a greater ability than nonmeditators to detect heartbeat sensations at rest, despite the meditators' reported subjective ratings of higher accuracy and lower difficulty. Here, attempting to overcome previous methodological limitations, we assessed...