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Pulling your self together: meditation promotes congruence between implicit and explicit self-esteem

Self-reported or explicit self-esteem frequently conflicts with indirectly assessed, implicit self-esteem. The present research investigated whether meditation may reduce such inner conflicts by promoting congruence between implicit and explicit self-esteem. Relative to control conditions, meditation led to greater congruence between explicit self-esteem, assessed via self-report, and implicit self-esteem, indicated by name letter preference (Studies 1 and 2). Low implicit self-esteem was further associated with a slow-down of explicit self-evaluation (Study 2), an effect that mediated the greater congruence between implicit and explicit self-esteem in the meditation condition. These results suggest that meditation encourages people to rely more on intuitive feelings of self-worth.

Pulling your self together: meditation promotes congruence between implicit and explicit self-esteem

Urheber*in: Koole, Sander L.; Govorun, Olesya; Cheng, Clara Michelle; Gallucci, Marcello

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Seite(n): 1220-1226
Sprache
Englisch
Anmerkungen
Status: Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Erschienen in
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45(6)

Thema
Psychologie
Sozialpsychologie
Meditation

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Koole, Sander L.
Govorun, Olesya
Cheng, Clara Michelle
Gallucci, Marcello
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wann)
2009

DOI
URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-309733
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  • Zeitschriftenartikel

Beteiligte

  • Koole, Sander L.
  • Govorun, Olesya
  • Cheng, Clara Michelle
  • Gallucci, Marcello

Entstanden

  • 2009

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