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Hui Kou

4 papers in the library · 13 citations · publishing 2023-2026

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Psychological trajectories following brief mindfulness training: a longitudinal comparison of active and passive controls

Frontiers in Psychology August 26, 2026 Weiqiang Qi, Xi Li, Xinyue Liang et al.

Background Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) have been demonstrated to enhance emotional functioning, but little is known regarding the brief mindfulness training’s effects on various psychological symptoms and positive psychological resources in the long term, especially when compared to both passive and active control conditions. This study aimed to examine the effects of brief...

Mindfulness training enhances face working memory: evidence from the drift-diffusion model

npj Science of Learning December 9, 2025 Hui Kou, Wei Luo, Xiaodong Li et al.

The effect of mindfulness training on working memory is unclear. The current study sought to confirm the impact of mindfulness training on working memory for facial stimuli and to reveal the cognitive mechanisms underlying this effect by using drift-diffusion modeling (DDM). Using a delayed match-to-sample task with facial stimuli, we measured memory performance across five emotional categories...

The sustained effect of 5-week EmotionCore mindfulness training on emotion regulation and emotional intelligence: heterogeneous benefits for depression and anxiety across subgroups

Frontiers in Psychiatry July 18, 2025 Hui Kou, Wei Luo, Yiwei Wang et al. 2 citations

Background: The present study investigated the sustained effects of a 5-week EmotionCore mindfulness training program on emotion regulation, emotional intelligence (EI), trait mindfulness, depression, and anxiety among 120 undergraduates, while exploring the mediating mechanisms of training effect and heterogeneous effects across subgroups. Methods: Participants were randomly assigned to a...

Mindfulness training modifies attentional bias to facial emotion and emotional symptoms.

Journal of Psychiatric Research November 1, 2023 Hui Kou, Wei Luo, Xinnan Liu et al. 11 citations

Mindfulness training has been shown to improve emotional symptoms such as anxiety and depressive symptoms. However, its cognitive-behavioral mechanism is still unclear. The present study aimed to investigate the effect of mindfulness training on attention to emotional faces and its role in the improvement in emotional symptoms. Eighty participants were recruited and randomly divided into a...