Mindfulness Meditation Influences Implicit but Not Explicit Coding of Temporal Simultaneity

Mindfulness meditation and explicit and implicit indicators of personality and self-concept changes

The scientific interest on mindfulness meditation (MM) has significantly increased in the last two decades probably because of the positive health effects that this practice exerts in a great variety of clinical and non-clinical conditions. Despite attention regulation, emotional regulation, and body awareness have been argued to be critical mechanisms through which MM improves well-being, much...

Everyday mindfulness and mindfulness meditation: Overlapping constructs or not?

Elaborating on our understanding of the construct of mindfulness is currently a priority as mindfulnessbased therapeutic interventions proliferate (Bishop et al., 2004). Two studies examined the relationship between measures of everyday mindfulness, mindfulness during meditation, and the five-factor model personality domains. These studies also investigated the effect of sitting meditation on m...

Implicit but not explicit self-esteem predicts future depressive symptomatology.

To date, research on the predictive validity of implicit self-esteem for depressive relapse is very sparse. In the present study, we assessed implicit self-esteem using the Name Letter Preference Task and explicit self-esteem using the Rosenberg self-esteem scale in a group of currently depressed patients, formerly depressed individuals, and never depressed controls. In addition, we examined th...

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Instructing implicit processes: When instructions to approach or avoid influence implicit but not explicit evaluation

• Instructions to approach or avoid fictitious social groups cause changes in implicit evaluations. • These changes are not fully mediated by changes in explicit evaluations. • These changes occur even in the absence of changes in explicit evaluations. • These changes occur even if highly diagnostic incompatible valence information is provided. • These findings constrain current and future mode...