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Stepping out of history: Mindfulness improves insight problem solving 자세히보기
  • 자료유형학술지논문
  • 저자명Ostafin, B. D.,Kassman, K. T.
  • 학회/출판사/기관명Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam
  • 출판년도2012
  • 언어영어
  • 학술지명/학위논문주기Consciousness and cognition
  • 발행사항Vol.21No.2[2012]_x000D_
  • ISBN/ISSN1053-8100
  • 소개/요약Insight problem solving is hindered by automated verbal-conceptual processes. Because mindfulness meditation training aims at "nonconceptual awareness" which involves a reduced influence of habitual verbal-conceptual processes on the interpretation of ongoing experience, mindfulness may facilitate insight problem solving. This hypothesis was examined across two studies (total N=157). Participants in both studies completed a measure of trait mindfulness and a series of insight and noninsight problems. Further, participants in Study 2 completed measures of positive affect and a mindfulness or control training. The results indicated that (a) trait mindfulness predicts better insight but not noninsight problem solving (both studies), (b) this relation is maintained when controlling for positive affect (Study 2), (c) mindfulness training improves insight but not noninsight problem solving (Study 2) and (d) this improvement is partially mediated by state mindfulness (Study 2). These findings are the first to document a direct relation between mindfulness and creativity.