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Routledge eBooks April 28, 2017 Paul Condon 46 citations
This chapter reviews the scientific research investigating the impact of mindfulness and related meditation techniques on compassion and prosocial behaviour. Of greatest interest, the neural effects of compassion training predicted increased altruistic behaviour in an economic transaction. Many studies have examined the impact of mindfulness, loving-kindness, or compassion training on...
Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust April 28, 2017 D. Burnett, G. Phillips, O. Tashani
We hypothesised a 10 minute mindfulness based intervention performed by a novice therapist would have a beneficial effect on pain responses in naive participants. Twenty-four participants were randomly assigned to the control group or mindfulness meditation group. The control group sat quietly for 10 minutes in between two cold pressor tasks. The mindfulness meditation intervention group...
April 28, 2017 Lawrence W. Barsalou 6 citations
The dysfunctional roles of mind-wandering have been noted widely both in contemplative traditions and in Western science. This chapter attempts to apply dual-process theories to contemplative practices that have existed for thousands of years in Buddhism. According to Buddhism, several important types of Involuntary Initial Response (IR) underlie dissatisfaction and unhappiness: grasping and...
JMIR Research Protocols April 26, 2017 Tami Turner, Melanie D. Hingle 35 citations
BACKGROUND: Mindfulness-based interventions are reported to be highly acceptable and have positive effects on youth, yet most are clinic- or school-based aimed at emotional regulation or academic performance. To provide flexible program delivery, we developed and tested a standalone mindfulness-based app aimed at improving weight-related behaviors (eg, diet, physical activity, sleep) in...
Children April 26, 2017 Lynn C Waelde, Amanda Feinstein, Rashmi Bhandari et al.
Despite advances in psychological interventions for pediatric chronic pain, there has been little research examining mindfulness meditation for these conditions. This study presents data from a pilot clinical trial of a six-week manualized mindfulness meditation intervention offered to 20 adolescents aged 13–17 years. Measures of pain intensity, functional disability, depression and parent...
April 26, 2017 Pádraic J Dunne, Caoimhe O'Leary, Lucia Prihodova et al.
Background: Work in a healthcare setting can affect the psychological wellbeing of healthcare professionals (HCPs). Emotional exhaustion among HCPs can have a significant negative impact on the quality of healthcare provided to patients in terms of increased medical errors and decreased patient satisfaction. There is a need for an effective stress-reducing intervention, such as mantra...
International Journal of Indian Psychology April 25, 2017
The Present investigation is based on Research study undertaken to find out the ‘The Effect of Vipassana Meditation on Academic Stress among adolescence’. An experiment was conducted on 50 adolescence age 15 to 18 of non-randomized control group. Pre test post test design. For data collection tools Bisht Battery of Scale of Academic stress were used. we performed on two sample‘t’ test for the...
Psychology of Addictive Behaviors April 24, 2017 Wen Li, Eric L Garland, Patricia McGovern et al.
Empirical studies have identified increasing rates of Internet gaming disorder (IGD) and associated adverse consequences. However, very few evidence-based interventions have been evaluated for IGD or problematic video gaming behaviors. This study evaluated Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement (MORE) as a treatment for IGD. Thirty adults (Mage = 25.0, SD = 5.4) with IGD or problematic video...
April 24, 2017 Hong Lin
Is Chan (Zen) Still Relevant in 21st Century? What do you get in the studies of Chan ontology, history, Chan’s reflections on Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism, Chan utterances and debates, Chan and mystics, and Chan poems and drawings? What is your mindset when thinking about Chan in modern societies? Chan is clearly a philosophy that impacts human are view about the essence of science and...
Routledge eBooks April 21, 2017 Christopher Germer, Thorsten Barnhofer 32 citations
Compassion training is following close on the heels of mindfulness, emphasizing the attitudinal and relational aspects of mind training. This chapter explores ancient and modern meanings of mindfulness and how compassion fits or doesn&s;t fit in with those concepts. It considers the multidimensional meaning of compassion and the role mindfulness plays in compassion theory and practice, followed...