Frontiers in Psychology
2025
Sarah Straßnig, Tobias Herzl, Afrodita Latifi et al.
3 citations
Oceanic feelings, which reflect a sense of boundlessness, unity but also fragmentation can evoke spiritual experiences and possibly lead to psychosis proneness. This study explores oceanic feelings psychometrically, by examining their connections with spirituality, schizotypy, and personality organization. A sample of 480 adult non-clinical participants (66.2% female) completed an online...
Frontiers in Psychology
2025
Qi Mao, Wolfgang Mastnak, Ruiyuan Guan
2 citations
Archaeological findings witness the anthropological roots of dance, while psychological, medical, cultural and aesthetic studies shed light on health promoting capacities and curative factors inhering in symbolic and expressive body movement. Since dance therapy became a multifaceted discipline in the middle of the 20th century, increasing evidence of beneficial effects has advocated the use of...
Frontiers in Psychology
2025
Nishit Kumar Sinha
2 citations
Past research has established the beneficial effects of mindfulness on mental health. The present study attempts to extend the previous literature by examining the potential mediating role of resilience between mindfulness and mental health relationships. A survey questionnaire comprising the Cognitive and Affective Mindfulness Scale-Revised (CAMS-R), Wagnild and Young Brief Resilience scale,...
Frontiers in Psychology
2025
Kequn Chu, Jing Ge, Huan Fan et al.
2 citations
This study investigated whether body image mediates the link between mindfulness (state/trait) and restrictive eating behaviors. A 6-day daily survey of 65 females with restrictive eating patterns incorporated correlation, regression, and multilevel mediation analyses. Trait mindfulness, state mindfulness, and body image were positively interrelated, while all three demonstrated inverse...
Frontiers in Psychology
2025
Daniela Ramirez-Duran, Margaret L. Kern, Helen Stokes
2 citations
Yoga is usually defined and researched as a mind-body practice used for stress reduction, fitness and general health and wellbeing. While there are widely accepted definitions found in traditional texts and contemporary literature, as a millennial tradition yoga has evolved throughout time, places and people. Less is known about how regular yoga practitioners perceive, experience, and define...
Frontiers in Psychology
2025
Johannes T. Reckweg, Natasha L. Mason, Eef L. Theunissen et al.
2 citations
A three-item Peak Experience Scale (PES) was developed to rapidly evaluate the strength of the psychoactive experience, and to guide the dosing regimen, of the psychedelic 5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine (5-MeO-DMT; mebufotenin). This paper aims to compare the PES with a range of established questionnaires designed to evaluate the psychedelic experience. Data were gathered from three separate...
Frontiers in Psychology
2025
Thomas Fuchs
2 citations
The paper argues for an embodied and enactive view of linguistic concepts as a solution to the "scaling up" problem, namely the transition from embodied experience to symbolic and abstract thought. Drawing on phenomenology, neurobiology, conceptual metaphor theory and enactivism, it aims to demonstrate the constitutive role of the body and intersubjectivity in concept formation. Concrete...
Frontiers in Psychology
2025
Pascal Michael, David Luke, Oliver Robinson
2 citations
Classical near-death experiences (NDEs) refer to states of disconnected consciousness characterised by a range of features occurring in the context of being close to death. Various psychedelic substances, such as N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT), consistently replicate NDE features and may be considered 'near-death-like experiences.' However, a systematic qualitative analysis comparing the...
Frontiers in Psychology
2025
Sandra Goizueta, Anny Maza, Ana Sierra et al.
2 citations
The diagnosis of patients with disorders of consciousness (DOC), including those in a minimally conscious state (MCS) and those with unresponsive wakefulness syndrome (UWS), remains a significant clinical challenge. Neurobehavioral assessment primarily relies on motor responses to commands, which are often difficult to interpret due to impaired comprehension and cognitive-motor dissociation,...
Frontiers in Psychology
2025
Laura H Malinin
2 citations
Researchers have long called for an integrated approach toward understanding the complex relationships between factors influencing creativity. Significant efforts have been made in this area through research examining interactions between personal traits, social environments, and creative productivity. However, relationships among factors involving the physical context of creativity have less...
Frontiers in Psychology
2025
Yintu Bao, Jianqian Sun, Xiaochuan Zhang
1 citation
This study aimed to examine the effects of mindfulness training (MT) and high-intensity interval training (HIIT) on enhancing psychological health and cognitive inhibition in college students. A total of 132 undergraduates were recruited and randomly assigned to three groups: MT group, HIIT group, and control group. Both the MT and HIIT groups received training twice a week for 6 weeks, with...
Frontiers in Psychology
2025
Claudia Russo, Luciano Romano, Davide Clemente et al.
1 citation
Adolescents are increasingly exposed to global challenges, making it important to promote a sense of global identity-defined as a psychological connection with humanity as a whole. While scholars have highlighted the role of mindfulness and restorativeness in promoting global identity per se, there is a lack of studies hypothesizing their involvement in a unique framework and adopting virtual...
Frontiers in Psychology
2025
Ana Rita Soares, Sandra Soares, Tânia Brandão et al.
1 citation
The well-being of medical students is affected by high stress levels. The relevance of a mindfulness mediation app (Med@Med) specifically produced to help medical students at a Portuguese medical school cope with stress was evaluated. The app, consisting of 21 short meditations, was totally developed in Portuguese to fulfill with the needs of some of the students. The motivations to use the...
Frontiers in Psychology
2025
Serena Paese, Andrea Schiavio
1 citation
Previous research shows that meditation practice helps reduce Music Performance Anxiety (MPA), positively impacting the musicians' wellbeing and performative skills. Several meditation types have been explored, but further investigation into additional methods is warranted to provide a more comprehensive understanding of the impact and potential use of meditation to address MPA. The present...
Frontiers in Psychology
2025
Diane Joss, Joseph Rosansky, Paula Gardiner et al.
1 citation
Adverse childhood experiences (ACE) are transdiagnostic developmental risk factors for various mental and physical health issues, including Opioid Use Disorder (OUD). Existing research demonstrated ACE not only affects the onset, severity, and comorbidity of disorders, but also affects treatment responses. To investigate whether and how ACE modulates treatment effects of Mindfulness Based...
Frontiers in Psychology
2025
Bruno Forti
1 citation
In this paper, I outline a new theory on consciousness, the Extended Information Theory. This theory jointly addresses issues related to the nature of consciousness and those related to its functional role. The phenomenal analysis of the simplest aspects of experience allows us to identify the structure of consciousness within consciousness itself. The simplest forms of experience are not found...
Frontiers in Psychology
2025
Thurston Lacalli
1 citation
Complexity in biology typically has less complex evolutionary antecedents which, for consciousness, begs the question of how a fully elaborated and unified consciousness, as we experience it, would have been scaled up from what we can assume to have been simpler, or at least different, beginnings. This poses difficulties for some theories, but is much simplified if the contents of consciousness...
Frontiers in Psychology
2025
Jian Peng, Longjun Jing, Peng Wang et al.
1 citation
This study explores the relationship between mindfulness, flow, cognitive anxiety, and self-rated performance in competitive sports, moving away from traditional cognitive-behavioral principles to investigate mindfulness-based interventions, specifically mindfulness- and acceptance-based interventions (MABI). The research is centered on understanding how mindfulness relates to the self-rated...
Frontiers in Psychology
2025
Egbert Haverkamp, Erik Olsman, Branislava Ćurčić-blake et al.
1 citation
It has become increasingly accepted within psychotherapy to incorporate various forms of spirituality and religiosity to address the rising prevalence of mental health issues. This is well-founded, as a growing number of findings report benefits of spiritual practices for individuals experiencing depression, anxiety, and stress. However, science-based guidelines on how to embed spiritual...
Frontiers in Psychology
2025
Shuting Liao, Anbang Hu
1 citation
This study addresses a critical gap in understanding the psychological mechanisms underlying stress self-management among university teachers. Specifically, it develops and tests a Conservation of Resources (COR)-based dual-mediator model, examining how mindfulness contributes to stress self-management through two sequentially linked psychological resources: resilience and cognitive...
Frontiers in Psychology
2025
Marc Wittmann, Carlos Montemayor, Mauro Dorato
1 citation
Building on the Stoic notion of self-regulation, we explore philosophical conceptualizations in relation to empirical evidence from psychology and cognitive neuroscience. We challenge the mainstream account that dismisses the possibility of free will based on contemporary scientific findings. Instead, we argue that these findings actually support and refine the Stoic view of free will,...
Frontiers in Psychology
2025
Adala M Prevost, Michal George, Melike M Fourie
1 citation
Three decades into democracy, the corollaries of apartheid continue to pattern South African society, with complicated race feelings and resistance to reparative government policies still driving separation. Sharing a grounding with African knowledge systems in the interconnectedness of all people, compassion-based meditation has proven to be a powerful promoter of prosocial action toward...
Frontiers in Psychology
2025
Jian Sun
1 citation
A central tension exists within Charles S. Peirce's philosophy of mind: while he characterizes perception as an "extreme case of abduction," its involuntary nature seems to exclude it from the realm of reasoning. This paper aims to resolve this tension and develop a unified framework for understanding perception and emotion. We propose a two-tier model of abduction, distinguishing between...
Frontiers in Psychology
2025
Emma R. Huels, Lily Carter, Gang Xu et al.
Previous studies have demonstrated acute changes in brain activity that occur during shamanic journeying-an ancient spiritual practice used for physical, psychological, and spiritual healing. However, the effect of shamanic journeying on other physiological measures, such as heart rate variability, remains unknown. We investigated changes in heart rate variability (HRV) during sessions of...
Frontiers in Psychology
2025
Nevia Dolcini
Hallucinations sit at the crossroads of philosophy and the empirical sciences, but are often approached with divergent aims. In philosophy, they are mainly treated stipulatively as experiences subjectively indistinguishable from veridical perception and used to probe theories of perception, justification, and consciousness. Empirical research, by contrast, investigates heterogeneous, clinically...