Zen meditation neutralizes emotional evaluation, but not implicit affective processing of words.


Journal

PloS one
ISSN: 1932-6203
Titre abrégé: PLoS One
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101285081

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
2020
Historique:
received: 06 09 2019
accepted: 03 02 2020
entrez: 20 2 2020
pubmed: 20 2 2020
medline: 10 5 2020
Statut: epublish

Résumé

There 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.

Identifiants

pubmed: 32074130
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0229310
pii: PONE-D-19-25176
pmc: PMC7029852
doi:

Banques de données

figshare
['10.6084/m9.figshare.11591838.v1']

Types de publication

Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

e0229310

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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Auteurs

Larissa Lusnig (L)

Department of Psychology, University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany.

Ralph Radach (R)

Department of Psychology, University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany.

Christina J Mueller (CJ)

Methods and Evaluation, International Psychoanalytic University, Berlin, Germany.

Markus J Hofmann (MJ)

Department of Psychology, University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany.

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