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James Meaden

2 papers in the library · publishing 2026

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Framing the mind: media, metaphors, and mindfulness

Frontiers in Social Psychology January 12, 2026 James Meaden

Mindfulness has been studied in media and communication research as an individual capacity for regulating attention, managing distraction, and critically engaging with content. This perspective paper introduces an alternative approach, one that recognizes that mindfulness is strongly influenced by environments, including media environments. Drawing on the environmental model of mindfulness,...

The abstraction habituation model of knowledge worker burnout.

Frontiers in Psychology 2026 James Meaden

Burnout among knowledge workers presents a puzzle: many workers report persistent burnout despite relatively favorable conditions, and interventions show limited lasting effects. Dominant resource models assume rest restores function, yet cannot fully explain why recovery fails despite adequate time, why burnout remains stable despite accumulating resources, or why mindfulness intervention...