Making peace with disliked others: the effects of a short loving-kindness meditation on implicit and explicit emotional evaluations

BMC Psychology

Franziska Anna Schroter¹  Petra Jansen¹ 

[1] Department of Human Sciences, University of Regensburg;

关键词: Loving-kindness meditation;    Imagery;    Affective priming;    Implicit attitudes;    Explicit attitudes;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s40359-022-00817-5

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Abstract Background The main goal of the study was to investigate the effects of a short loving-kindness meditation (LKM) on explicit and implicit evaluations of oneself and disliked public persons. We expected a more positive explicit and implicit evaluation of oneself and a disliked public person after the LKM and a mood improvement. Methods Before and after the implementation of a short LKM vs. imagery task, mood, explicit and implicit evaluations were analyzed in 69 students. Results Our results demonstrated only a reduction in negative and positive mood in both groups and regarding the explicit and implicit tasks, only a significant main effect of picture and a trend for the time*group interaction for mood, implicit and explicit attitudes with medium effect-sizes. Conclusions A possible influence of a short intervention on emotional evaluations should be treated with caution. The claim that a short loving-kindness meditation enhances social connectedness might awake false hopes. This study suggests being careful with the interpretation of single meditation effects and future studies should examine the effects of a long-lasting meditation training on explicit and implicit evaluations of the self and disliked politicians as well as the sustainability of those effects.

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