Helping People by Being in the Present: Mindfulness Increases Prosocial Behavior
A. Hafenbrack, Lindsey D. Cameron, Gretchen M. Spreitzer, Chen Zhang, Laura J. Noval, Samah Shaffakat
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes July 9, 2018 DOI: 10.5465/ambpp.2018.12684abstract (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Topics | Meditation |
| Key points | Argues that secularized mindfulness, as studied by Western psychologists and taught in corporations, may lose essential ethical and spiritual dimensions of its Buddhist origins, potentially reducing it to a technique for stress reduction and productivity rather than a path to deeper insight and compassion. |
Abstract
While mindfulness originated in Buddhist teachings, the variant studied by Western psychologists and taught in corporations has been secularized. One might suspect that secularized mindfulness - a ...
Comparable studies
Other theoretical and historical papers on meditation, most cited first.
| Study | Year | Design | Participants |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mindfulness: A proposed operational definition. | 2004 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Mechanisms of mindfulness | 2005 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| How Does Mindfulness Meditation Work? Proposing Mechanisms of Action From a Conceptual and Neural Perspective | 2011 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for depression | 2006 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-transcendence (S-ART): a framework for understanding the neurobiological mechanisms of mindfulness | 2012 | Theoretical or philosophical paper |