Sitting and silent meditation as a strategy to study emotion regulation

Psychology and Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 27-36

  Menezes, Carolina B ^a   Pereira, Mirtes G ^b   Bizarro, Lisiane ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Attention; Emotion regulation; Meditation; Relaxation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; EMOTIONAL STABILITY; EMOTIONALITY; HUMAN; MEDITATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; SILENT MEDITATION; SITTING;

EID: 84864491521     PISSN: 19843054     EISSN: 19833288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3922/j.psns.2012.1.05     Document Type: Article

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