Mindfulness Meditation Reduces Implicit Age and Race Bias: The Role of Reduced Automaticity of Responding

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 284-291

  Lueke, Adam ^a   Gibson, Bryan ^a  

^a CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

implicit attitudes; implicit bias; mindfulness meditation; prejudice

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924914855     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550614559651     Document Type: Article

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