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The Nondiscriminating Heart: Lovingkindness Meditation Training Decreases Implicit Intergroup Bias 자세히보기
  • 자료유형학술지논문
  • 저자명Kang, Y.,Gray, J.R.,Dovidio, J.F.
  • 학회/출판사/기관명APA AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
  • 출판년도2014
  • 언어영어
  • 학술지명/학위논문주기Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
  • 발행사항Vol.143No.3[2014]_x000D_
  • ISBN/ISSN
  • 소개/요약Although meditation is increasingly accepted as having personal benefits, less is known about the broader impact of meditation on social and intergroup relations. We tested the effect of lovingkindness meditation training on improving implicit attitudes toward members of 2 stigmatized social outgroups: Blacks and homeless people. Healthy non-Black, nonhomeless adults (N = 101) were randomly assigned to 1 of 3 conditions: 6-week lovingkindness practice, 6-week lovingkindness discussion (a closely matched active control), or waitlist control. Decreases in implicit bias against stigmatized outgroups (as measured by Implicit Association Test) were observed only in the lovingkindness practice condition. Reduced psychological stress mediated the effect of lovingkindness practice on implicit bias against homeless people, but it did not mediate the reduced bias against Black people. These results suggest that lovingkindness meditation can improve automatically activated, implicit attitudes toward stigmatized social groups and that this effect occurs through distinctive mechanisms for different stigmatized social groups. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2013 APA, all rights reserved).