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Higher trait mindfulness is associated with empathy but not with emotion recognition abilities
Mindfulness involves an intentional and non-judgemental attention or awareness of present-moment experiences. It can be cultivated by meditation practice or present as an inherent disposition or trait. Higher trait mindfulness has been associated with improved emotional skills, but evidence comes pr...
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2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7481693/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32968498 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.192077 |
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author | Vilaverde, Ricardo F. Correia, Ana Isabel Lima, César F. |
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description | Mindfulness involves an intentional and non-judgemental attention or awareness of present-moment experiences. It can be cultivated by meditation practice or present as an inherent disposition or trait. Higher trait mindfulness has been associated with improved emotional skills, but evidence comes primarily from studies on emotion regulation. It remains unclear whether improvements extend to other aspects of emotional processing, namely the ability to recognize emotions in others. In the current study, 107 participants (M(age) = 25.48 years) completed a measure of trait mindfulness, the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire, and two emotion recognition tasks. These tasks required participants to categorize emotions in facial expressions and in speech prosody (modulations of the tone of voice). They also completed an empathy questionnaire and attention tasks. We found that higher trait mindfulness was associated positively with cognitive empathy, but not with the ability to recognize emotions. In fact, Bayesian analyses provided substantial evidence for the null hypothesis, both for emotion recognition in faces and in speech. Moreover, no associations were observed between mindfulness and attention performance. These findings suggest that the positive effects of trait mindfulness on emotional processing do not extend to emotion recognition abilities. |
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spelling | pubmed-74816932020-09-22 Higher trait mindfulness is associated with empathy but not with emotion recognition abilities Vilaverde, Ricardo F. Correia, Ana Isabel Lima, César F. R Soc Open Sci Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience Mindfulness involves an intentional and non-judgemental attention or awareness of present-moment experiences. It can be cultivated by meditation practice or present as an inherent disposition or trait. Higher trait mindfulness has been associated with improved emotional skills, but evidence comes primarily from studies on emotion regulation. It remains unclear whether improvements extend to other aspects of emotional processing, namely the ability to recognize emotions in others. In the current study, 107 participants (M(age) = 25.48 years) completed a measure of trait mindfulness, the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire, and two emotion recognition tasks. These tasks required participants to categorize emotions in facial expressions and in speech prosody (modulations of the tone of voice). They also completed an empathy questionnaire and attention tasks. We found that higher trait mindfulness was associated positively with cognitive empathy, but not with the ability to recognize emotions. In fact, Bayesian analyses provided substantial evidence for the null hypothesis, both for emotion recognition in faces and in speech. Moreover, no associations were observed between mindfulness and attention performance. These findings suggest that the positive effects of trait mindfulness on emotional processing do not extend to emotion recognition abilities. The Royal Society 2020-08-05 /pmc/articles/PMC7481693/ /pubmed/32968498 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.192077 Text en © 2020 The Authors. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience Vilaverde, Ricardo F. Correia, Ana Isabel Lima, César F. Higher trait mindfulness is associated with empathy but not with emotion recognition abilities |
title | Higher trait mindfulness is associated with empathy but not with emotion recognition abilities |
title_full | Higher trait mindfulness is associated with empathy but not with emotion recognition abilities |
title_fullStr | Higher trait mindfulness is associated with empathy but not with emotion recognition abilities |
title_full_unstemmed | Higher trait mindfulness is associated with empathy but not with emotion recognition abilities |
title_short | Higher trait mindfulness is associated with empathy but not with emotion recognition abilities |
title_sort | higher trait mindfulness is associated with empathy but not with emotion recognition abilities |
topic | Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7481693/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32968498 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.192077 |
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