EFFECT OF SHORT-TERM MINDFULNESS INDUCTION ON MYSIDE BIAS AND MISERLY PROCESSING: A PRELIMINARY STUDY

• Authors: Marek Jurkovič
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The goal of the current study was to explore the possible effect of a short mindfulness meditation on decreasing a tendency for miserly processing and degree of myside bias. The author ś sample consisted of 76 students that were assigned into three groups: one with short mindfulness intervention and two control groups (one was given a lecture on cognitive biases and second group was given mind-wandering instruction). The groups did not significantly differ in any of the measured variables (with one minor exception). The results indicate that short-term mindfulness induction was unsuccessful in changing the proclivity for cognitive biases, contrary to what the author predicted.

Keywords

EN

MINDFULNESS; MISERLY PROCESSING; MYSIDE BIAS

• Publisher: Institute of Experimental Psychology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Studia Psychologica
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 58
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 231 – 237

Contributors

author

Marek Jurkovič

• Institute of Experimental Psychology Centre of Social and Psychological Sciences, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, 841 04 Bratislava, Slovak Republic