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Open AccessDoes Mindfulness Decrease or Increase Egoic Functioning? Diverging Evidence From Different Study Designs
Mindfulness meditation has been claimed to decrease aspects of egoic functioning (EF). However, empirical evidence is largely lacking or is suggesting the reverse. Therefore, the aim was to examine the associa...
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Open AccessThe Self-Pattern and Buddhist Psychology
In this paper, we address core insights from Buddhist psychology about mind-body phenomena and the self, and we relate such insights to the notion of the self-pattern developed in the pattern theory of self. W...
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Open AccessUnderstanding mechanisms of depression prevention: study protocol of a randomized cross-over trial to investigate mechanisms of mindfulness and positive fantasizing as intervention techniques for reducing perseverative cognition in remitted depressed individuals
Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is one of the most prevalent psychiatric disorders, and involves high relapse rates in which persistent negative thinking and rumination (i.e., perseverative cognition [PC]) pla...
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Open AccessBest research practices for using the Implicit Association Test
Interest in unintended discrimination that can result from implicit attitudes and stereotypes (implicit biases) has stimulated many research investigations. Much of this research has used the Implicit Associat...
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Open AccessA moderate dose of alcohol selectively reduces empathic accuracy
Drinking alcohol is associated with various interpersonal effects, including effects on cognitive empathy. Empathic accuracy (EA) is a form of cognitive empathy concerned with perceivers’ accuracy in inferring...
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Open AccessInternet-based attentional bias modification training as add-on to regular treatment in alcohol and cannabis dependent outpatients: a study protocol of a randomized control trial
The automatic tendency to attend to and focus on substance-related cues in the environment (attentional bias), has been found to contribute to the persistence of addiction. Attentional bias modification (ABM) ...
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Introduction: The Science of Mindfulness and Self-Regulation
Mindfulness has Buddhist roots, but exists as a human potential independent of this philosophical tradition. To be mindful means to be aware of current thoughts, feelings, and experiences in a curious, nonjudg...
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Taming the Wild Elephant: Mindfulness and Its Role in Overcoming Automatic Mental Processes
There is increasing evidence that automatic mental processes contribute to self-regulation failures such as eating high-fat foods despite being on a diet and getting trapped in old ways of thinking about probl...
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Affective Reactivity Mediates an Inverse Relation Between Mindfulness and Anxiety
Little is known about the mechanisms through which mindfulness is related to psychological symptoms such as anxiety. One potential mechanism consists of individual differences in emotion-responding variables s...
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Open AccessWhen wanting to change is not enough: automatic appetitive processes moderate the effects of a brief alcohol intervention in hazardous-drinking college students
Research indicates that brief motivational interventions are efficacious treatments for hazardous drinking. Little is known, however, about the psychological processes that may moderate intervention success. B...
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Drinking for relief: Negative affect increases automatic alcohol motivation in co**-motivated drinkers
Although there is increasing evidence that automatic alcohol motivation plays a role in drinking behavior, little research has examined the contexts that elicit these automatic processes. This study was design...
