5 papers in the library · 1,409 citations · publishing 2005-2025
Front Psychol September 8, 2025 Anita Milicevic, Angela Blazely, Anatol Bragin et al. 2 citations
Consciousness, mindfulness, and introspection: integrating first- and second-person phenomenological inquiry with experimental and EEG data to study the mind.
Psychology of Consciousness Theory Research and Practice March 1, 2016 Anthony P Zanesco, Brandon G King, Katherine A Maclean et al. 61 citations
It is challenging for individuals to maintain their attention on ongoing cognitive tasks without being distracted by task-unrelated thought. The wandering mind is thus a considerable obstacle when attention must be maintained over time. Mental training through meditation has been proposed as an effective method of attenuating the ebb and flow of attention to thoughts and feelings that distract...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 2012 Gaelle Desbordes, Lobsang Negi, Thaddeus W W Pace et al. 445 citations
The amygdala has been repeatedly implicated in emotional processing of both positive and negative-valence stimuli. Previous studies suggest that the amygdala response to emotional stimuli is lower when the subject is in a meditative state of mindful-attention, both in beginner meditators after an 8-week meditation intervention and in expert meditators. However, the longitudinal effects of...
American Psychologist 2006 B. Alan Wallace, Shauna L. Shapiro 606 citations
Clinical psychology has focused primarily on the diagnosis and treatment of mental disease, and only recently has scientific attention turned to understanding and cultivating positive mental health. The Buddhist tradition, on the other hand, has focused for over 2,500 years on cultivating exceptional states of mental well-being as well as identifying and treating psychological problems. This...
Current Directions in Psychological Science April 1, 2005 Paul Ekman, Richard J. Davidson, Matthieu Ricard et al. 295 citations
Stimulated by a recent meeting between Western psychologists and the Dalai Lama on the topic of destructive emotions, we report on two issues: the achievement of enduring happiness, what Tibetan Buddhists call sukha, and the nature of afflictive and nonafflictive emotional states and traits. A Buddhist perspective on these issues is presented, along with discussion of the challenges the...