Mindfulness meditation counteracts self-control depletion

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1016-1022

  Friese, Malte ^a   Messner, Claude ^b   Schaffner, Yves ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Attention control; Emotion suppression; Mindfulness meditation; Self control depletion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; MEDITATION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; SELF CONTROL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ATTENTION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; MEDITATION;

EID: 84860539905     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2012.01.008     Document Type: Article

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