Acta Psychologica
July 1, 2026
Terje Sparby, Torbjørn Eftestøl, Markus Lindholm et al.
In a recent taxonomy of different philosophies of mind, Robert Lawrence Kuhn classified Rudolf Steiner's view as a mind-body dualism. We argue that this classification is incorrect. Rather, Steiner's view is trinitarian and represents a unification of monism and dualism. Hence, the trinitarian conception of the human being in Steiner not only challenges Kuhn's taxonomic placement of Steiner's...
Acta Psychologica
June 20, 2026
Paula Celeste Salamone, Nadia Alejandra Dowzuk, Martina Nayla Gallo et al.
Social touch plays a fundamental role in bodily self-awareness and emotional regulation. Alterations in how touch is perceived or sought may contribute to disturbances in self-perception, such as those seen in depersonalization. This study examined the relationship between depersonalization symptoms, social touch acceptance and seeking, and self-concept clarity in a non-clinical Argentinian...
Acta Psychologica
June 1, 2026
Gabriela Górska, Paweł Holas
Empathy and compassion often arise in response to others' suffering but can be inhibited when the sufferers represent out-groups. Mindfulness meditation may help counter these blocks by reducing distress and fostering compassionate responses. In this study, we tested whether a brief, 10-min mindfulness intervention could enhance empathic and compassionate reactions to in-group and out-group...
Acta Psychologica
June 1, 2026
Aanchal Sankhla, Samridhi Pareek, Gagan Jain
This study investigates how mindfulness meditation influences time perception by comparing practicing meditators and non-meditators (n = 30) on retrospective and prospective timing tasks. Retrospective time perception was assessed after an 11-min session of Naad Brahma meditation (for meditators) or listening to an audio story (for controls). Prospective time estimation was measured using...
Acta Psychologica
May 14, 2026
Aamer Aldbyani
Background: Positive psychology helps individuals enhance their attention, self-awareness, and positive thinking. Recent research has explored the impact of mindfulness—one of the core techniques in positive psychology—on behavioral addictions such as smartphone overuse. However, the effects of positive psychology courses that integrate mindfulness meditation, particularly in promoting digital...
Acta Psychologica
May 1, 2026
Cristina Martinez Montes, Birgit Penzenstadler
Knowledge workers often face high stress due to deadlines and overcommitment, which negatively impacts their well-being. They have specific characteristics and challenges, such as a tendency to work in isolation or in intense team environments, sleep deprivation, and making decisions under pressure. To support preventive measures, this study provides a comprehensive, systematic understanding of...
Acta Psychologica
April 1, 2026
Xianhua Zhang, Enqin Yan
2 citations
Although previous studies have explored factors influencing teachers' professional identity, limited attention has been given to its underlying psychological mechanisms from a metacognitive perspective. In particular, few studies have examined how mindfulness, a core psychological resource, relates to professional identity among early childhood education teachers, a group facing unique...
Acta Psychologica
March 1, 2026
Michael Kimmel
A striking feature of expert performance "in the wild" is how experts fluidly mesh or alternate between multiple kinds of competencies. To do justice to this fact, both, an integrative theory and methodology are called for. My first task is to provide a review of different theory frameworks of skills in the motor domain, which reveals great differences of emphasis. While cognitivist approaches...
Acta Psychologica
February 13, 2026
Hina Kawaguchi, Vincent Taschereau-Dumouchel, Hakwan Lau et al.
Story reading is often accompanied with mental visualization of the described scenes and events. Recent findings indicate that individuals who report not experiencing any visual imagery (a condition called aphantasia), also report being less absorbed and engaged when reading stories. In the present study, we explored how aphantasics (n = 8) and controls (n = 20) read imagery-rich stories. We...
Acta Psychologica
November 1, 2025
Mai Sakuragi, Satoshi Umeda
Our thoughts often drift away from the tasks at hand. Various factors influence this phenomenon, including changes in the external environment, individual cognitive characteristics, and fluctuations in bodily reactions. This study investigated the relationship between fluctuations in cardiac activity and thought state transitions, focusing on individual differences such as cardiac...
Acta Psychologica
September 1, 2025
Eunha Kim, Teemu H Laine, Youbin Lee
The purpose of this study was to examine whether cognitive restructuring and mindfulness-based meditation would alleviate stress and anxiety induced by a social VR-based TSST within StressMeta, the platform that we developed. Additionally, we investigated whether the effectiveness of these interventions would vary based on trait anxiety levels. A total of 60 college students were randomly...
Acta Psychologica
June 20, 2025
Ivaylo Borislavov Iotchev, Hein Thomas van Schie
1 citation
Neuroscientific support for the equivalence hypothesis, stating that perception can be either conscious or unconscious, rests upon overlap in the brain areas activated during conscious perception and subliminal priming. This interpretation is argued here incompatible with the implications of the biased competition model, wherein different interpretations of the world compete and one must be...
Acta Psychologica
May 1, 2025
Fengbo Liu, Qingyang Yu, Shichang Cai et al.
2 citations
To explore the impact of brief mindfulness training on athletes' mood and the moderating effect of burnout between them. This study has employed the mixed experimental design of 2 (experimental conditions) × 2 (time points), randomly assigned 60 athletes into a mindfulness training group and a control group (30 athletes in each group), and selected the Five Facets Mindfulness Questionnaire...
Acta Psychologica
May 1, 2025
Philippine Chachignon, Emmanuelle Le Barbenchon, Lionel Dany et al.
1 citation
The multifaceted self refers to how non-clinical individuals perceive themselves as possessing a more sophisticated self-compared to others by accumulating pairs of opposing positive traits. Conversely, depressed individuals are more multifaceted on negative traits, revealing an absence of self-enhancement strategies, which are known to be associated with psychological adjustment. A...
Acta Psychologica
January 10, 2025
P. Soláriková, I. Bartolen
This exploratory study examines the effects of a single, brief (3-h) Chamber Restricted Environmental Stimulation Therapy (REST) session on emotional experience, state mindfulness, and physiological regulation in young adults. Previous research has shown preliminary evidence, that REST offers a range of benefits in managing stress and mental well-being. We focused on young adult population, a...
Acta Psychologica
November 1, 2024
Xiaofan Yan, Xiaojie Wang, Yanli Chen et al.
11 citations
Increased stress among medical students in military college has been a challenge in the field of education. One approach to addressing stress reduction is mindfulness training. MBSR has been verified to improve the health status of different individuals. The aim of this study was to examine whether MBSR improves the psychological resilience, posttraumatic stress and posttraumatic growth of...
Acta Psychologica
June 1, 2024
Shi-Yang Zhong, Jia-Hui Guo, Xiao-Na Zhou et al.
This study examined the impact of brief mindfulness meditation (BMM) training on attention function and dispositional mindfulness in young males. 126 male participants aged 18-26 from the security industry were recruited, with 66 participants (M = 22.84, SD = 2.41) undergoing 4-week mindfulness meditation training and 60 participants (M = 23.07, SD = 2.29) in the active control group. The...
Acta Psychologica
May 1, 2024
Raghavendra Sode, Kalaa Chenji
This study aims to investigate the intricate interplay between self-transcendence, spiritual transcendence, innovative work behavior, and the mediating role of workplace spirituality. Utilizing structural equation modeling, it examines the associations among these variables. Mediation analysis explores the extent to which workplace spirituality mediates these relationships. The findings reveal...
Acta Psychologica
April 1, 2024
Chao Lian, Xiao-Xia Chen
A transition to a more sustainable society is occurring worldwide and necessitates a change in people's ways of consuming. Self-transcendence (ST) is recognized as a key predictor of green consumption. Thus, a multiple intermediary model was developed to clarify the psychological mechanisms underlying ST and its influence on consumption. The model was tested using data from a nationally...
Acta Psychologica
March 1, 2024
Abbie J Irving, Niia Nikolova, Susan Robinson et al.
To our knowledge, no study has directly examined the link between hypnotic response and the personality trait of transliminality (which is underpinned, for example, by magical ideation, mystical experience, fantasy proneness, absorption, hyperaesthesia). In order to further understand the correlates of suggestibility, the aim of the current project was to investigate whether transliminality is...
Acta Psychologica
November 1, 2023
Bence Szaszkó, Rebecca Rosa Schmid, Ulrich Pomper et al.
20 citations
Engaging in yoga may mitigate stress and anxiety in individuals while potentially enhancing one's capacity to manage distractions. Our research aimed to explore the relation between these two outcomes: Can an eight-week yoga program foster distraction suppression, thereby reducing stress and discomfort? To answer this question, we used Hatha Yoga, the most commonly practiced form of yoga. We...
Acta Psychologica
October 1, 2023
Anna F Leyland, Myrthe G. B. M. Boekhorst, Julia E Offermans et al.
5 citations
Anxiety is highly prevalent in the perinatal period and can have negative consequences for the mother and the child. Extensive research has been done on risk factors for anxiety during the perinatal period, but less is known about protective factors. The current study aims to determine the relative contribution of trait mindfulness as a protective factor for anxiety. A longitudinal study design...
Acta Psychologica
March 17, 2023
Mingchao Dong, Yingwu Li, Yan Zhang
Youth depression is often associated with impairments in cognitive function, especially in executive function. This study examines the effect of an 8-session-long mindfulness training that can improve executive function in youth with depression. Sixty youths (age range 15-27 years) with depression were selected as participants and were randomized into a mindfulness training group (MTG) and a...
Acta Psychologica
July 1, 2019
P A Hancock, A D Kaplan, J K Cruit et al.
40 citations
An altered sense of the experience of time represents one of the nine dimensions that is conceived as characterizing a state of flow. While a number of other factors necessarily contribute to this overall experience of flow, subjective time perception is of particular quantitative interest and thus serves as the focus of the present meta-analysis. The extant body of relevant quantitative...