Brief loving-kindness meditation reduces racial bias, mediated by positive other-regarding emotions Article (Accepted Version) http://sro.sussex.ac.uk Stell, Alexander J and Farsides, Tom (2015) Brief loving-kindness meditation reduces racial bias, mediated by positive other-regarding emotions. Motivation and Emotion, 40 (1). pp. [140][141][142][143][144][145][146][147] This version is available from Sussex Research Online: http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/60181/ This document is made available in accordance with publisher policies and may differ from the published version or from the version of record. If you wish to cite this item you are advised to consult the publisher's version. Please see the URL above for details on accessing the published version. Copyright and reuse:Sussex Research Online is a digital repository of the research output of the University.Copyright and all moral rights to the version of the paper presented here belong to the individual author(s) and/or other copyright owners. To the extent reasonable and practicable, the material made available in SRO has been checked for eligibility before being made available.Copies of full text items generally can be reproduced, displayed or performed and given to third parties in any format or medium for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-profit purposes without prior permission or charge, provided that the authors, title and full bibliographic details are credited, a hyperlink and/or URL is given for the original metadata page and the content is not changed in any way. LKM, BIAS & OTHER-REGARDING EMOTIONS

Although crisis episodes have been most commonly associated with midlife, research on crisis after midlife is marked by its absence. Here we report findings from a retrospective interview-based study of 21 adults about crises occurring between the ages of 60 and 69 in the first attempt to explore the holistic structure, process and experiential contents of later-life crisis. Basing our analysis on existing models of late-adult development, four key areas of later-life crisis were explored: (1) life events and relationships, (2) self and identity, (3) motivation and goals, and (4) cognition and affect. We were able to define a provisional common holistic process to later-life crisis episodes, shared by all participants, which included multiple loss-inducing stressful life events that provide a cumulative challenge to coping resources, a struggle with ego integrity, increased mortality awareness, and the rescaling of goals, activities and roles in ways that pertain to re-engagement, continuity or disengagement. Findings are discussed in relation to theories of adult development in later life whilst strategies are proposed for future research on this understudied area.