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How do people conceptualize mindfulness?
While the concept of mindfulness is ubiquitous, its meaning is ambiguous, with limited knowledge about how it is understood by the general public. Understanding how laypeople perceive mindfulness and mindful people is vital, as it will impact how people interpret and act upon information about mindf...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8941388/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35345432 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.211366 |
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author | Haddock, Geoffrey Foad, Colin M. G. Thorne, Sapphira |
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description | While the concept of mindfulness is ubiquitous, its meaning is ambiguous, with limited knowledge about how it is understood by the general public. Understanding how laypeople perceive mindfulness and mindful people is vital, as it will impact how people interpret and act upon information about mindfulness and mindfulness practices. Study 1 participants evaluated the term mindfulness positively, while Study 2 participants perceived a mindful target positively and as strongly endorsing self-transcendence values (e.g. equality). Study 3 participants learned about an unknown target who was mindful or not. The mindful target was evaluated more positively than the less-mindful target and seen as endorsing different values. Most effects in Studies 1–3 were stronger among more mindful participants. Study 4 assessed visual representations of mindful and less-mindful faces. Visual representations of a mindful face were judged by naive raters as more likeable, possessing higher self-transcendence values and performing more moral behaviours compared with a less-mindful face. The results suggest that how people interpret mindfulness has important consequences and can be used to guide how mindfulness is implemented in response to global challenges. |
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spelling | pubmed-89413882022-03-27 How do people conceptualize mindfulness? Haddock, Geoffrey Foad, Colin M. G. Thorne, Sapphira R Soc Open Sci Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience While the concept of mindfulness is ubiquitous, its meaning is ambiguous, with limited knowledge about how it is understood by the general public. Understanding how laypeople perceive mindfulness and mindful people is vital, as it will impact how people interpret and act upon information about mindfulness and mindfulness practices. Study 1 participants evaluated the term mindfulness positively, while Study 2 participants perceived a mindful target positively and as strongly endorsing self-transcendence values (e.g. equality). Study 3 participants learned about an unknown target who was mindful or not. The mindful target was evaluated more positively than the less-mindful target and seen as endorsing different values. Most effects in Studies 1–3 were stronger among more mindful participants. Study 4 assessed visual representations of mindful and less-mindful faces. Visual representations of a mindful face were judged by naive raters as more likeable, possessing higher self-transcendence values and performing more moral behaviours compared with a less-mindful face. The results suggest that how people interpret mindfulness has important consequences and can be used to guide how mindfulness is implemented in response to global challenges. The Royal Society 2022-03-23 /pmc/articles/PMC8941388/ /pubmed/35345432 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.211366 Text en © 2022 The Authors. https://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/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience Haddock, Geoffrey Foad, Colin M. G. Thorne, Sapphira How do people conceptualize mindfulness? |
title | How do people conceptualize mindfulness? |
title_full | How do people conceptualize mindfulness? |
title_fullStr | How do people conceptualize mindfulness? |
title_full_unstemmed | How do people conceptualize mindfulness? |
title_short | How do people conceptualize mindfulness? |
title_sort | how do people conceptualize mindfulness? |
topic | Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8941388/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35345432 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.211366 |
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