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    Does 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...

    Ivan Nyklíček, Brian D. Ostafin, Myrthe G. B. M. Boekhorst in Mindfulness (2024)

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    The 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...

    Shaun Gallagher, Antonino Raffone, Aviva Berkovich-Ohana, Henk P. Barendregt in Mindfulness (2024)

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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...

    Brian D. Ostafin, Jessica J. Brooks, Magali Laitem in Mindfulness (2014)

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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...

    Brian D. Ostafin, Jessica J. Brooks in Motivation and Emotion (2011)