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The Impact of Loving-Kindness Meditation on Affective Learning and Cognitive Control 자세히보기
  • 자료유형학술지논문
  • 저자명Hunsinger, M.,Livingston, R.,Isbell, L.
  • 학회/출판사/기관명Springer Science and Business Media
  • 출판년도2013
  • 언어영어
  • 학술지명/학위논문주기Mindfulness
  • 발행사항Vol.4No.3[2013]_x000D_
  • ISBN/ISSN1868-8527
  • 소개/요약Research on meditation has examined many variables across a wide range of techniques. Research on loving-kindness meditation has investigated its impact on affective variables, but has not yet investigated its impact on cognition. The present study investigated the impact of loving-kindness meditation on an affective variable not yet examined in the literature—affective learning—as well as cognition. Participants were randomly assigned to a control condition or a three-session, loving-kindness meditation training. Our results suggest that the beginning stages of loving-kindness meditation training impact the tendency to learn to associate positivity with neutral stimuli and cognitive control. We discuss the implications of our findings and potential directions for future research.