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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.
- Umfang
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Seite(n): 1220-1226
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Anmerkungen
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Status: Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
- Erschienen in
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Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45(6)
- Thema
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Psychologie
Sozialpsychologie
Meditation
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Koole, Sander L.
Govorun, Olesya
Cheng, Clara Michelle
Gallucci, Marcello
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Veröffentlichung
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2009
- DOI
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-309733
- Rechteinformation
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GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
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Objekttyp
- Zeitschriftenartikel
Beteiligte
- Koole, Sander L.
- Govorun, Olesya
- Cheng, Clara Michelle
- Gallucci, Marcello
Entstanden
- 2009