Can Meditation Make Us Nicer?

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: John Horgan <jhorgan () stevens edu>
> Date: March 23, 2018 at 1:22:14 PM EDT
> To: Dave Farber <farber () gmail com>
> Subject: Can Meditation Make Us Nicer?
>
> Dave, I thought your list might find this column interesting. Cheers, John
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> Can Meditation Make Us Nicer? A new study suggests that meditation’s moral and social benefits are limited.
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> ...[A] study published in Nature has cast doubt on the claim that meditation makes you nicer. Titled “The limited 
> prosocial effects of meditation: A systematic review and meta-analysis,” the study was carried out by cognitive 
> researchers Ute Kreplin, Miguel Farias and Inti Brazil.
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> The researchers note the extravagant claims made for meditation, including this widely circulated quote attributed to 
> the Dalai Lama: “If every eight-year-old in the world is taught meditation, the world will be without violence within 
> one generation.” Advocates of Transcendental Meditation have also asserted that it can reduce aggression and violence.
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> Kreplin, Farias and Brazil sought to test these claims.... They conclude that mediation “might make one feel 
> moderately more compassionate or empathic, but our findings suggest that these effects may be, at least in part, the 
> result of methodological frailties, such as biases introduced by the meditation teacher, the type of control group 
> used and the beliefs and expectations of participants about the power of meditation.”
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> More at https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/can-meditation-make-us-nicer/



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