Publications

Meditation

Abdoun, O., Zorn, J., Poletti, S., Fucci, E., & Lutz, A. (2019). Training novice practitioners to reliably report their meditation experience using shared phenomenological dimensions. Consciousness and cognition68, 57-72.

Bruce, M., Skrine Jeffers, K., King Robinson, J., & Norris, K. (2018). Contemplative Practices: A Strategy to Improve Health and Reduce Disparities. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 15(10).

Burke, A., Lam, C. N., Stussman, B., & Yang, H. (2017). Prevalence and patterns of use of mantra, mindfulness and spiritual meditation among adults in the United States. BMC complementary and alternative medicine17(1), 316.

Cebolla, A., Demarzo, M., Martins, P., Soler, J., & Garcia-Campayo, J. (2017). Unwanted effects: Is there a negative side of meditation? A multicentre survey. PloS one12(9), e0183137.

Josipovic, Z., & Baars, B.J. (2016). What can neuroscience learn from contemplative practices? Frontiers Media.

Kang, J. (2019). Examining interpersonal self-transcendence as a potential mechanism linking meditation and social outcomes. MindRxiv Papers. https://doi.org/10.31231/osf.io/8wh5t

Karunamuni, N. D. (2015). The Five-Aggregate Model of the Mind. SAGE Open. https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244015583860

Kreplin, U., Farias, M., & Brazil, I. A. (2018). The limited prosocial effects of meditation: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Scientific Reports, 8(1), 2403.

Lindahl, J.R., Fisher, N.E., Cooper, D.J., Rosen, R.K., & Britton, W.B. (2017). The varieties of contemplative experience: A mixed-methods study of meditation-related challenges in Western Buddhists. PLoS ONE, 12(5).

Schlosser, M., Sparby, T., Vörös, S., Jones, R., & Marchant, N. L. (2019). Unpleasant meditation-related experiences in regular meditators: Prevalence, predictors, and conceptual considerations. PloS one14(5), e0216643.

Seaford, R. (Ed.). (2016). Universe and Inner Self in Early Indian and Early Greek Throught. University of Edinburgh Press.

Sevinc, G. & Lazar, S. (2019). How does mindfulness training improve moral cognition: A theoretical and experimental framework for the study of embodied ethics. MindRxiv Papers. https://doi.org/10.31231/osf.io/cd7qv

Vieten, C., Wahbeh, H., Cahn, R.B., Maclean, K., Estrada, M., Mills, P., Murphy, S., Radin, D., Josipovic, Z., Presti, D.E., Sapiro, M., Bays, J.C., & Delorme, A. (2018). Future directions in meditation research: Recommendations for expanding the field of contemplative science. PLoS ONE, 13(11).

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