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Pierre De Oliveira

3 papers in the library · 17 citations · publishing 2023-2024

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The effect of a short mindfulness meditation practice on positive mental health: Self-transcendence as a mediating process

International Journal of Wellbeing October 1, 2024 Michael Dambrun, Adam W. Hanley, Eric L Garland et al. 5 citations

In two randomized controlled trials, we tested the effect of two attentional mindfulness meditation practices on positive mental health. We hypothesized that attentional meditation would increase various positive emotions (gratitude, interest, hope, pride, elevation, and awe) via three processes induced by mindfulness (body awareness, meta-awareness, and self-transcendence) and that positive...

DOI: 10.5502/ijw.v14i3.3635 (opens in new tab) Psychotherapist Transcendence philosophy Mental health Mindfulness meditation +3

Cultivating Self-Transcendence Through Meditation Practice: A Test of the Role of Meta-Awareness, (Dis)identification and Non-Reactivity.

Psychological Reports April 26, 2024 Pierre De Oliveira, Catherine Juneau, Céline Stinus et al. 11 citations

In this paper, we present a study comprising two distinct stages to examine the extent to which metacognitive processes of decentering facilitate the emergence of self-transcendence experiences in everyday life (i.e., the frequency of self-transcendent emotions, flow proneness, and adopting an interconnected identity). In the course of conducting this research, the first stage (N = 374) focused...

DOI: 10.1177/00332941241246469 (opens in new tab) Full text (opens in new tab) Meditation Disidentification Decentering Flow +3

Eliciting awe in the spectator: The case of a Dhrupad-based dance performance

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies April 26, 2023 Alfonso Santarpia, Andrée Martin, Armando Menicacci et al. 1 citation

This paper describes “Kalos, eîdos, skopeîn,” an immersive Dhrupad-based dance installation designed to elicit feelings of awe in the spectators, in a real-life artistic context. This study used a mixed-methods approach in order to explore spectators’ awe experience (N=45), using specific scales and interpretative phenomenological analysis. Results suggested that “Kalos, eîdos, skopeîn,” with...

DOI: 10.24972/ijts.2022.41.2.48 (opens in new tab)