Schroter, Franziska Anna and Jansen, Petra (2022) Making peace with disliked others: the effects of a short loving-kindness meditation on implicit and explicit emotional evaluations. BMC PSYCHOLOGY, 10 (1): 110. ISSN , 2050-7283
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Background The main goal of the study was to investigate the effects of a short loving-kindness meditation (LKM) on explicit and implicit evaluations of oneself and disliked public persons. We expected a more positive explicit and implicit evaluation of oneself and a disliked public person after the LKM and a mood improvement. Methods Before and after the implementation of a short LKM vs. imagery task, mood, explicit and implicit evaluations were analyzed in 69 students. Results Our results demonstrated only a reduction in negative and positive mood in both groups and regarding the explicit and implicit tasks, only a significant main effect of picture and a trend for the time*group interaction for mood, implicit and explicit attitudes with medium effect-sizes. Conclusions A possible influence of a short intervention on emotional evaluations should be treated with caution. The claim that a short loving-kindness meditation enhances social connectedness might awake false hopes. This study suggests being careful with the interpretation of single meditation effects and future studies should examine the effects of a long-lasting meditation training on explicit and implicit evaluations of the self and disliked politicians as well as the sustainability of those effects.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | MINDFULNESS MEDITATION; VARIABILITY; STEREOTYPES; MECHANISMS; ATTITUDES; Loving-kindness meditation; Imagery; Affective priming; Implicit attitudes; Explicit attitudes |
| Subjects: | 700 Arts & recreation > 796 Athletic & outdoor sports & games |
| Divisions: | Human Sciences > Institut für Sportwissenschaft |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 31 Oct 2023 06:52 |
| Last Modified: | 31 Oct 2023 06:52 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/56539 |
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