Meditation Inhibits Aggressive Responses to Provocations

Mindfulness

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 1117-1122

  DeSteno, David ^a   Lim, Daniel ^a   Duong, Fred ^a   Condon, Paul ^b  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN OREGON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Executive control; Meditation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85050267859     PISSN: 18688527     EISSN: 18688535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12671-017-0847-2     Document Type: Article

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