We investigate if concentrative meditation training (CMT) offered during adolescent development benefits subsystems of attention using a quasi-experimental design. Attentional alerting, orienting, and conflict monitoring were examined using the Attention Network Test (ANT) in 13-15 year old children who received CMT as part of their school curriculum (CMT group: N = 79) vs. those who received n...

Moderate task conflict has generally been associated with higher group performance, and relationship conflict associated with lower performance. Past studies have most often discussed their findings as though differences in level of intragroup conflict cause differences in group performance—rather than testing the additional possibility that reported group conflict is a reaction to feedback on ...

This research reports on a study that investigated the effect of Decision Conferencing (a Group Decision Support System or GDSS) on group conflict and conflict management in the Singapore context. 20 groups, involving 77 undergraduates, participated in this laboratory experiment. Groups attended a single decision-making session where they were required to achieve a consensus decision on the two...

Intergroup conflict profoundly affects the welfare of groups and can deteriorate intergroup relations long after is over. Here, we experimentally investigate how experience an influences ability to establish cooperation conflict. We induced by using a repeated attacker-defender game in which four are divided into two ‘attackers’ that invest resources take away from other participants role ‘defe...

The neurocognitive basis of the effect of long-term high altitude exposure on conflict control is unclear. Event related potentials (ERPs) were recorded in a flanker task to investigate the influence of high altitude on conflict control in the high-altitude group (who had lived at high altitude for three years but were born at low altitude) and the low-altitude group (living in low altitude onl...