Loving-Kindness Meditation Increases Social Connectedness

Emotion

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 720-724

  Hutcherson, Cendri A ^a   Seppala, Emma M ^a   Gross, James J ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

compassion; emotion regulation; implicit affect; meditation; prosocial emotion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY; LOVE; MALE; MEDITATION; MOOD CHANGE; SELF EVALUATION; SOCIAL ATTITUDE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LOVE; MALE; MEDITATION; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 54849418872     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0013237     Document Type: Article

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