6 papers in the library · 19 citations · publishing 2018-2024
BMC Psychol September 27, 2024 Chung Fei Ng, Miguel Farias, Inti A. Brazil 3 citations
Interpersonal and individual effects of an app-based Christian and Islamic heart meditation intervention in healthy adults: protocol of a stratified randomised controlled trial.
Mindfulness June 21, 2023 Masoumeh Rahmani, Valerie van Mulukom, Miguel Farias 14 citations
Objectives: The beliefs and expectations people bring into mindfulness practice can affect the measurement outcomes of interventions. The aim of this mixed-method study was to examine the key beliefs in the powers of mindfulness-understood as non-judgmental awareness of the present moment-to transform the individual and the society, and to develop and validate the Belief in the Powers of...
British Journal of Health Psychology February 27, 2022 I. Burić, Miguel Farias, J. Driessen et al.
Objectives Meditation interventions typically show small to moderate effects on health and well‐being, but we know little about how these effects vary across individuals. This meta‐analytic study investigates the relationship between baseline participant characteristics and the outcomes of meditation. Methods A systematic search yielded 51 eligible studies with 7782 participants. A combination...
October 7, 2021 Valerie van Mulukom, Armin W. Geertz, Robert W. Clark et al. 2 citations preprint
In this chapter, we explore parallels between art and religion through culture and symbolic systems, drawing from past sociologists, anthropologists, philosophers, and current cognitive research. We argue that the creation of the arts and religion – as particularly important human cultural phenomena – allowed for subjective knowledge to become represented in symbols and artefacts, the latter...
Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica August 21, 2020 Miguel Farias, E. Maraldi, K. C. Wallenkampf et al.
Meditation techniques are widely used as therapy and wellbeing practices, but there are growing concerns about its potential for harm. The aim of the present study is to systematically review meditation adverse events (MAEs), investigating its major clinical categories and its prevalence.
Scientific Reports February 5, 2018 U. Kreplin, Miguel Farias, Inti A. Brazil
Many individuals believe that meditation has the capacity to not only alleviate mental-illness but to improve prosociality. This article systematically reviewed and meta-analysed the effects of meditation interventions on prosociality in randomized controlled trials of healthy adults. Five types of social behaviours were identified: compassion, empathy, aggression, connectedness and prejudice....