Exploring meditation and biased emotional responses to counter-attitudinal persuasive messages

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dc.contributor.advisorMunro, Geoffrey D.
dc.contributor.authorSantoro, Antonia N.
dc.contributor.departmentTowson University. Department of Psychologyen_US
dc.date.accessioned2017-10-30T21:11:26Z
dc.date.available2017-10-30T21:11:26Z
dc.date.issued2017-10-30
dc.date.submitted2017-05
dc.description(M.A.) -- Towson University, 2017en_US
dc.description.abstractMindfulness meditation (MM) has been shown to improve emotional regulation (Teper, Segal, & Inzlicht, 2013) and therefore may reduce negative emotional states experienced in response to a counter-attitudinal persuasive message. Loving kindness meditation (LKM) has been shown to increase positive emotions (Stell & Farside, 2015) and therefore may counteract negative emotions produced by these messages. Research has shown a link between types of meditation and a reduction in other types of bias (Hafrenbrack, Kinians, & Barsade, 2014; Stell & Farside, 2015). The goal of the present study was to explore the emotional mechanism underlying biased reactions to counter-attitudinal information and the ability of MM to regulate this emotional reaction and LKM to counteract this emotional reaction and therefore decrease bias. Results are discussed in terms of effectiveness of the meditation and persuasion manipulations and possibilities for further research.en_US
dc.description.urihttp://library.towson.edu/digital/collection/etd/id/60205en_US
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dc.format.extentvi, 37 pagesen_US
dc.genrethesesen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/M25Q4RN4H
dc.identifier.otherTSP2017Santoro
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/7391
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.titleExploring meditation and biased emotional responses to counter-attitudinal persuasive messagesen_US
dc.typeTexten_US

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