Department of Human Sciences, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.
BMC Psychol. 2022 Apr 29;10(1):110. doi: 10.1186/s40359-022-00817-5.
The main goal of the study was to investigate the effects of a short loving-kindness meditation (LKM) on explicit and implicit evaluations of oneself and disliked public persons. We expected a more positive explicit and implicit evaluation of oneself and a disliked public person after the LKM and a mood improvement.
Before and after the implementation of a short LKM vs. imagery task, mood, explicit and implicit evaluations were analyzed in 69 students.
Our results demonstrated only a reduction in negative and positive mood in both groups and regarding the explicit and implicit tasks, only a significant main effect of picture and a trend for the time*group interaction for mood, implicit and explicit attitudes with medium effect-sizes.
A possible influence of a short intervention on emotional evaluations should be treated with caution. The claim that a short loving-kindness meditation enhances social connectedness might awake false hopes. This study suggests being careful with the interpretation of single meditation effects and future studies should examine the effects of a long-lasting meditation training on explicit and implicit evaluations of the self and disliked politicians as well as the sustainability of those effects.
本研究的主要目的是调查短暂的仁爱冥想（LKM）对自我和不喜欢的公众人物的外显和内隐评价的影响。我们预计在 LKM 之后，对自己和不喜欢的公众人物的外显和内隐评价会更加积极，并改善情绪。
在对 69 名学生实施短暂的 LKM 与想象任务前后，分析了他们的情绪、外显和内隐评价。
我们的结果仅表明两组的负面和正面情绪都有所降低，而对于外显和内隐任务，只有情绪、内隐和外显态度的图片和时间*组间交互作用的显著主效应，具有中等效应大小。
对短暂干预对情绪评价的可能影响应持谨慎态度。短暂的仁爱冥想可以增强社交联系的说法可能会带来虚假的希望。本研究建议谨慎解释单一冥想效果，未来的研究应检验长期冥想训练对自我和不喜欢的政治家的外显和内隐评价以及这些效果的可持续性的影响。
