Meditation Inhibits Aggressive Responses to Provocations

DeSteno, David; Lim, Daniel; Duong, Fred; Condon, Paul

doi:10.1007/s12671-017-0847-2

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“…Nonetheless, practicing mindfulness can also certainly lead to stronger moral or less immoral reactions, for example, when the otherwise experienced feeling (e.g., feelings of vengeance or anger) would result in harming another person (DeSteno, Lim, Duong, & Condon, 2017;Long & Christian, 2015). Nonetheless, practicing mindfulness can also certainly lead to stronger moral or less immoral reactions, for example, when the otherwise experienced feeling (e.g., feelings of vengeance or anger) would result in harming another person (DeSteno, Lim, Duong, & Condon, 2017;Long & Christian, 2015).…”

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“…Showing the (moral) downsides of mindfulness, the present research reflects an important step in advancing this field of study. Nonetheless, practicing mindfulness can also certainly lead to stronger moral or less immoral reactions, for example, when the otherwise experienced feeling (e.g., feelings of vengeance or anger) would result in harming another person (DeSteno, Lim, Duong, & Condon, 2017;Long & Christian, 2015). Another line of research proposes mindfulness exercises to increase compassionate responses (Condon, Desbordes, Miller, & DeSteno, 2013;Lim, Condon, & DeSteno, 2015).…”

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Potential negative consequences of mindfulness in the moral domain

Schindler

Pfattheicher

Reinhard

2019

Euro J Social Psych

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Mindfulness is a state of paying conscious and nonjudgmental attention to present‐moment experiences. Previous research relates this state to more effective emotion regulation and less emotion reactivity. We therefore hypothesized an attenuating effect of a mindfulness exercise on moral reactions that usually results from a bad conscience when having caused harm. Across five studies, we experimentally induced mindfulness via a short breathing exercise and then assessed harm‐based moral reactions. As hypothesized, participants in the mindfulness (vs. control) exercise condition showed (i) attenuated repair intentions after having read a scenario in which participants caused harm to a friend (Study 3) and (ii) attenuated intentions to change harm‐causing eating habits (Study 4). Results of Studies 1, 2 and 5 did not provide evidence for our hypothesis. A following meta‐analysis across all five studies yielded an overall significant effect of mindfulness in the harm‐condition, providing preliminary evidence for a potential downside to mindfulness.

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Potential negative consequences of mindfulness in the moral domain

Schindler

Pfattheicher

Reinhard

2019

Euro J Social Psych

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“…Other measures of prosocial behavior include reductions in hot sauce used to punish a transgressor [42,43]; willingness to include an ostracized individual in the online ball-tossing game "Cyberball" [6,7]; email messages written to an ostracized individual [7]; and visual attention to scenes of suffering measured with eye-tracking [44]. Although such measures require more time and resources, they are necessary to accumulate more conclusive data than those offered by self-report measures.…”

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Meditation in context: factors that facilitate prosocial behavior

Condon

2019

Current Opinion in Psychology

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Contemplative science experienced tremendous growth in the past five years in part through new attention to the social processes and prosocial outcomes associated with meditation. Despite this growth, questions persist about the mechanisms and contexts through which meditation increases or fails to increase prosocial behavior. In this article, I draw on Buddhist traditions and empirical efforts to understand the ethical and relational contexts that promote prosocial behavior. In summary, meditation promises a viable approach to increase prosocial behavior, but future research will require a careful, holistic examination of contemplative contexts that foster those outcomes.

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“…Few experimental studies have investigated the effects of mindfulness on anger regulation and aggression. In one recent study, 46 participants were randomly assigned to 3 weeks of mindfulness training or a logical problem-solving control condition (DeSteno, Lim, Duong, & Condon, 2018). At the final laboratory session, participants were provoked and then completed the hot sauce aggression paradigm.…”

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Anger regulation in interpersonal contexts: Anger experience, aggressive behavior, and cardiovascular reactivity

Beames

O’Dean

Grisham

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Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

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The ability to regulate anger facilitates harmonious interactions with strangers, colleagues, friends, and romantic partners. We review the influence of four emotion regulation strategies (i.e., cognitive reappraisal, suppression, angry rumination, and mindfulness) on subjective anger experience, cardiovascular reactivity, and aggressive behavior. All studies included a real or implied social interaction (e.g., with a fictitious participant). We included research on individual differences in emotion regulation as well as experiments that manipulated emotion regulation strategies. The evidence suggests that cognitive reappraisal and mindfulness can buffer anger-related responses in interpersonal contexts. Angry rumination perpetuates anger and aggression. The effects of suppression are mixed. Our review highlights the need for additional research into the extent to which emotion regulation strategies influence provoked anger and aggression in different interpersonal contexts.

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Meditation Inhibits Aggressive Responses to Provocations

Cited by 40 publications

References 17 publications

Potential negative consequences of mindfulness in the moral domain

Potential negative consequences of mindfulness in the moral domain

Meditation in context: factors that facilitate prosocial behavior

Anger regulation in interpersonal contexts: Anger experience, aggressive behavior, and cardiovascular reactivity

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