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Zen meditation neutralizes emotional evaluation, but not implicit affective processing of words
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- 자료유형학술지논문
- 저자명L Lusnig, R Radach, CJ Mueller, MJ Hofmann
- 학회/출판사/기관명Public Library of Science
- 출판년도2020
- 언어영어
- 학술지명/학위논문주기Plos one
- 발행사항15(2): e0229310
- ISBN/ISSN19326203
- 소개/요약There is ample evidence that meditation can regulate emotions. It is questionable, however, whether meditation can down-regulate sensitivity to emotional experience in high-level cognitive representations such as words. The present study shows that adept Zen meditators rated the emotional valence of (low-arousal) positive and (high- and low-arousal) negative nouns significantly more neutral after a meditation session, while there was no change of valence ratings after a comparison intervention in the comparison group. Because the Zen group provided greater “openness to experience” and lower „need for achievement and performance” in the “Big Five” personality assessment, we used these scores as covariates for all analyses. We found no differential emotion effects of Zen meditation during lexical decision, but we replicated the slow-down of low-arousal negative words during lexical decision in both groups. Interestingly, Zen meditation elicited a global facilitation of all response times, which we discuss in terms of increased attentional resources after meditation.
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