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Short-Term Training in Mindfulness Predicts Helping Behavior Toward Racial Ingroup and Outgroup Members
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- 자료유형학술지논문
- 저자명Daniel R. Berry, Catherine S. J. Wall, Justin D. Tubbs, Fadel Zeidan and Kirk Warren Brown
- 학회/출판사/기관명Sage Periodicals Press
- 출판년도2023
- 언어영어
- 학술지명/학위논문주기Social Psychological and Personality Science
- 발행사항Volume 14, Issue 1
- ISBN/ISSN19485514@ 19485506
- 소개/요약A randomized controlled trial tested whether mindfulness training would increase lab-based and in vivo spontaneous helping behaviors toward racial outgroup members. First, across conditions, those scoring higher in baseline trait mindfulness showed higher levels of preintervention lab-based and ecological momentary assessment (EMA)-based helping behavior. Next, short-term (4-day) training in mindfulness, relative to a well-matched sham meditation training, increased interracial helping behavior in a lab-based simulation. Finally, among people scoring lower in a basic form of trait mindfulness at baseline—that is, with greater room for improvement—mindfulness training predicted higher postintervention in vivo helping behavior reported via EMA. However, neither training condition alone attenuated preferential helping toward racial ingroup members. These findings indicate, for the first time, that mindfulness and its training fosters helping behavior toward strangers and acquaintances regardless of their racial ingroup or outgroup status, but preferential helping of racial ingroup members remains.
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