Researchers find mindfulness can make you selfish
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Updated: Apr 14, 2021 07:41 IST
New York [US], April 14 (ANI): A recent study has suggested that mindfulness can make a person selfish.
It's within the area of prosocial behaviours that a new paper by University at Buffalo researchers demonstrates the surprising downsides of mindfulness while offering easy ways to minimize those consequences -- both of which have practical implications for mindfulness training.
Mindfulness and meditation are associated with reducing stress and anxiety while increasing emotional well-being. Plenty of scholarship supports these benefits. But how does mindfulness affect the range of human behaviours -- so-called prosocial behaviours -- that can potentially help or benefit other people? What happens when the research looks outwardly at the social effects of mindfulness rather than inwardly at its personal effects?