Knock yourself out: Brief mindfulness-based meditation eliminates self-prioritization.
Drift diffusion model
Mindfulness-based meditation
Ownership effect
Self-prioritization
Journal
Psychonomic bulletin & review
ISSN: 1531-5320
Titre abrégé: Psychon Bull Rev
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 9502924
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Feb 2023
Feb 2023
Historique:
accepted:
19
04
2022
pubmed:
26
7
2022
medline:
3
3
2023
entrez:
25
7
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Recent research has asserted that self-prioritization is an inescapable facet of mental life, but is this viewpoint correct? Acknowledging the flexibility of social-cognitive functioning, here we considered the extent to which mindfulness-based meditation-an intervention known to reduce egocentric responding-attenuates self-bias. Across two experiments (Expt. 1, N = 160; Expt. 2, N = 160), using an object-classification task, participants reported the ownership of previously assigned items (i.e., owned-by-self vs. owned-by-friend) following a 5-minute period of mindfulness-based meditation compared with control meditation (Expt. 1) or no meditation (Expt. 2). The results revealed that mindfulness meditation abolished the emergence of the self-ownership effect during decision-making. An additional computational (i.e., drift diffusion model) analysis indicated that mindfulness meditation eliminated a prestimulus bias toward self-relevant (vs. friend-relevant) responses, increased response caution, and facilitated the rate at which evidence was accumulated from friend-related (vs. self-related) objects. Collectively, these findings elucidate the stimulus and response-related operations through which brief mindfulness-based meditation tempers self-prioritization.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35879594
doi: 10.3758/s13423-022-02111-2
pii: 10.3758/s13423-022-02111-2
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
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Pagination
341-349Informations de copyright
© 2022. The Psychonomic Society, Inc.
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