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SIO330: Does Meditation Reduce Prosocial Behavior?

Serious Inquiries Only

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The Breathing Focus Meditation Versus the Loving Kindness Meditation Increased Mindfulness

Study looked at how breathing focus versus loving kindness recordings would affect motivations to engage in reparative behaviors. Participants were told to imagine that they have the phone number of the person that they described having wronged. They answered a series of questions about whether they would contact that person to apologize, what kinds of details they would include in the apology.

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