ArticleScientific reports2020
Mindfulness Meditation Activates Altruism.
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- Boosting prosocial career aspirations: Loving-kindness meditation relates to higher communal career goals in youth.Scandinavian journal of psychology · 2022Article
- Did Mindful People Do Better during the COVID-19 Pandemic? Mindfulness Is Associated with Well-Being and Compliance with Prophylactic Measures.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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- Mindfulness Promotes Online Prosocial Behavior via Cognitive Empathy.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Mindfulness effects on lifestyle behavior and blood pressure: A randomized controlled trial.Health science reports · 2021Article
- Electrophysiological effects of mindfulness meditation in a concentration test.Medical & biological engineering & computing · 2021Review
- Examining the Potential Synergistic Effects Between Mindfulness Training and Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Review
- The role of mindfulness on theta inter-brain synchrony during cooperation feedback processing: An EEG-based hyperscanning study.International journal of clinical and health psychology : IJCHPArticle
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Abstract
Clinical evidence suggests that mindfulness meditation reduces anxiety, depression, and stress, and improves emotion regulation due to modulation of activity in neural substrates linked to the regulation of emotions and social preferences. However, less was known about whether mindfulness meditation might alter pro-social behavior. Here we examined whether mindfulness meditation activates human altruism, a component of social cooperation. Using a simple donation game, which is a real-world version of the Dictator's Game, we randomly assigned 326 subjects to a mindfulness meditation online session or control and measured their willingness to donate a portion of their payment for participation as a charitable donation. Subjects who underwent the meditation treatment donated at a 2.61 times higher rate than the control (p = 0.005), after controlling for socio-demographics. We also found a larger treatment effect of meditation among those who did not go to college (p < 0.001) and those who were under 25 years of age (p < 0.001), with both subject groups contributing virtually nothing in the control condition. Our results imply high context modularity of human altruism and the development of intervention approaches including mindfulness meditation to increase social cooperation, especially among subjects with low baseline willingness to contribute.
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