Matthew L. Lapalme

Mindfulness meditation reduces guilt and prosocial reparation.

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology December 23, 2021 Andrew Hafenbrack, Matthew L. Lapalme, Isabelle Solal 69 citations

> 1,400), we demonstrate that state mindfulness cultivated via focused-breathing meditation can dampen the relationship between transgressions and the desire to engage in reparative prosocial behaviors. Experiment 1 showed that induced state mindfulness reduced state guilt. Experiments 2a-2c found that induced state mindfulness reduced the willingness to engage in reparative behaviors in...