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Can Mindfulness Meditation Improve Short-term and Long-term Academic Achievement in a Higher-education Course?

College Teaching April 25, 2019 Michael F. S. Baranski, Christopher A. Was

Abstract Mindfulness meditation involves focusing one's attention on the present moment in a non-judgmental way. Several recently published investigations have demonstrated that a brief session of mindfulness meditation, practiced before a higher-education course lecture, can improve performance on a quiz over lecture content given immediately following the lecture. It is less clear how...