Mindfulness is defined as non-judgmental present-moment attention and awareness, which varies across persons and moments. As a non-judgmental stance, mindfulness should allow for greater perceptual objectivity. Previous research suggests that self-interest can motivate people to ‘‘see what they want to see’’ (Balcetis & Dunning, 2006). We hypothesized that mindfulness would moderate this effect...

BACKGROUND Flow is a psychological state that might be viewed as desirable, and it occurs when a person is aware of his or her actions but is not being aware of his or her awareness. Mindfulness is viewed not as the achievement of any particular state, but as intentional awareness of what is, being aware of awareness. PURPOSE To examine theoretical perspectives and empirical research on flow ...

In this talk by concentration inequalities we mean inequalities that bound the deviations of a function of independent random variables from its mean. Due to their generality and elegance, many such results have served as standard tools in a variety of areas, including statistical learning theory, probabilistic combinatorics, and the geometry of Banach spaces. To illustrate some of the basic id...

[Correction Notice: An erratum for this article was reported in Vol 47(2) of Psychotherapy: Theory, Research & Practice (see record 2010-13424-005). the order of authorship and the affiliations of the authors was incorrectly printed. The correct order and affiliations are as follows: Noah Bruce, Shauna L. Shapiro, Michael J. Constantino, and Rachel Manber; Kaiser Permanente, Santa Clara Univers...

Objectives As a result of participating in Project HEAL (Health, Energy, and Life at Work, a mindfulness-based stress reduction [MBSR] intervention), participants will demonstrate measurable differences from preto post intervention: 1. 10% increase in knowledge, skill, attitude, & behaviour 2. 10% improvement in perceived ability to effectively manage stress 3. 10% improvement in knowledge of a...

In the research reported here, we investigated the debiasing effect of mindfulness meditation on the sunk-cost bias. We conducted four studies (one correlational and three experimental); the results suggest that increased mindfulness reduces the tendency to allow unrecoverable prior costs to influence current decisions. Study 1 served as an initial correlational demonstration of the positive re...

During adolescence, young people are traversing exciting and also challenging stages in their development. Mindfulness, if taught in a developmentally appropriate way, has the potential to be an asset in adolescents' lives. Developmentally appropriate approaches of mindfulness intervention during adolescence need to consider adolescents' social contexts (for example, school setting, peer group,...

Acute and long-term effects of mindfulness meditation on theta-band activity are not clear. The aim of this study was to investigate frontal theta differences between long- and short-term mindfulness practitioners before, during, and after mindfulness meditation. Twenty participants were recruited, of which 10 were experienced Buddhist meditators. Despite an acute increase in the theta activity...