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Tom Pyszczynski

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Reducing defensive responses to thoughts of death: Meditation, mindfulness, and Buddhism.

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology August 24, 2017 Young Chin Park, Tom Pyszczynski

Three studies investigated the effects of meditation on responses to reminders of death. Study 1 took a quasi-experimental approach, comparing defensive responses to mortality salience (MS) of South Korean participants with varying levels of experience with Buddhism and meditation. Whereas non-Buddhists without meditation showed the typical increase in worldview defense after mortality salience...