Exploring meditation and biased emotional responses to counter-attitudinal persuasive messages
Antonia Santoro
Maryland Shared Open Access Repository 2017 DOI: 10.13016/m25q4rn4h (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Peer reviewed |
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| Interventions | Mindfulness meditation Loving kindness meditation |
| Topics | Meditation |
| Key points | The abstract outlines a proposed emotional mechanism for biased reactions to counter-attitudinal information and tests whether mindfulness meditation can regulate and loving kindness meditation can counteract this reaction to decrease bias. No empirical results or conclusions are reported in the text; the authors state only that results are discussed in terms of the effectiveness of the meditation and persuasion manipulations and possibilities for further research. |
Abstract
Mindfulness meditation (MM) has been shown to improve emotional regulation (Teper, Segal, & Inzlicht, 2013) and therefore may reduce negative emotional states experienced in response to a counter-attitudinal persuasive message. Loving kindness meditation (LKM) has been shown to increase positive emotions (Stell & Farside, 2015) and therefore may counteract negative emotions produced by these messages. Research has shown a link between types of meditation and a reduction in other types of bias (Hafrenbrack, Kinians, & Barsade, 2014; Stell & Farside, 2015). The goal of the present study was to explore the emotional mechanism underlying biased reactions to counter-attitudinal information and the ability of MM to regulate this emotional reaction and LKM to counteract this emotional reaction and therefore decrease bias. Results are discussed in terms of effectiveness of the meditation and persuasion manipulations and possibilities for further research.