Loving-kindness meditation intervention
This project develops the PhD loving-kindness intervention work into a publishable manuscript. The broader question is whether contemplative or reflective loving-kindness practices can shift prosociality, self-regulation, implicit tendencies, and interpersonal behavior.
The grant framing was “Transforming habits from the heart: From good intentions to reliable prosocial response.” The project compares loving-kindness meditation, loving-kindness discussion, and a wait-list control to test whether loving-kindness practices can reduce aggressiveness and increase prosocial behavior, including more automatic or unconscious tendencies.
The current task is to reshape the thesis material into a tighter article format and decide whether additional analyses are needed.
Main group: dandeneau-lab.
Public materials
- Grant announcement: Mind & Life Varela Grant
- Preregistration: OSF registration
- Registration DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/GKD8S
- Open analysis script: R Markdown analysis
- Current preprint: Is the Mind More Powerful Than the Heart?
Current status
- Thesis-based manuscript in preparation.
- Reformatting and analytic decisions are the main bottlenecks.
- A related ego-depletion extension is parked until the main paper is further along.