2023-05-30 スイス連邦工科大学チューリッヒ校(ETHZurich)
Meditation makes people more resilient to uncomfortable emotions and negative information (Photograph: Colourbox)
◆瞑想のトレーニングは人々がより良い決断をするのに役立つ可能性があると言える。瞑想を実践することで、人々はネガティブな感情にうまく対処し、より客観的にネガティブな情報を処理できるようになると研究者は結論付けている。
<関連情報>
- https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2023/05/mindful-meditation-helps-us-make-better-decisions.html
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165176523000228?via%3Dihub
マインドフルネスが情報回避を減らす Mindfulness reduces information avoidance
Elliott Ash, Daniel Sgroi, Anthony Tuckwel, Shi Zhuo
Economics Letters Available online: 1 February 2023
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2023.110997
Highlights
•We run a field experiment on the effects of two weeks of mindfulness meditation.
•In an active control placebo, participants listened to relaxing music instead.
•Mindfulness meditation reduced the tendency to avoid painful information.
•The treatment improved emotion regulation.
Abstract
Mindfulness meditation has been found to influence various important outcomes such as health, stress, depression, productivity, and altruism. We report evidence from a randomised-controlled trial on a previously untested effect of mindfulness: information avoidance. We find that a relatively short mindfulness treatment (two weeks, 15 min a day) is able to induce a reduction in information avoidance — that is, avoiding information that may cause worry or regret. Supplementary evidence supports mindfulness’s effects on emotion regulation as a possible mechanism for the effect.
