id,title,description,date_created,date_modified,date_published,original_publication_date,publication_doi,provider,is_published,reviews_state,version,is_latest_version,preprint_doi,license,tags_list,tags_data,contributors_list,contributors_data,first_author,subjects_list,subjects_data,download_url,has_coi,conflict_of_interest_statement,has_data_links,has_prereg_links,prereg_links,prereg_link_info,last_updated
k5db6_v1,Greening Education: Cultivating connection and environmental values for responsiveness to ecological crisis among school students,"Recent literature suggests that while the environmental education followed at schools has raised knowledge among students, it has not always led to significant behavioral change or action. It is argued that environmental education should extend beyond knowledge, encouraging a deeper, empathetic connection with nature. In this study, the significance of current curriculum in cultivating responsiveness to the ecological crisis among school students is examined. Further, using theories from behavioral sciences, a structural model is proposed that hypothesizes the critical role of environmental factors, such as nature experiences at schools and in neighborhood green areas in fostering students’ environmental values and connectedness with nature and responsiveness to ecological crises. Partial Least Square method PLS-SEM is employed to examine the relationships and the mediating mechanisms in the proposed model. Key findings show a significant association of nature experiences with connectedness to nature, environmental values and responsiveness to ecological crises, while age, gender and environment education curriculum were not found to be significant. The analysis also revealed a full mediation of connectedness and environmental values in the relationship of nature experience with responsiveness to ecological crises.  Altogether, findings emphasize that supplementing existing curriculum with nature-based experiential learning for students may support meaningful environmental connectedness, engagement, and motivate sustainable action, instead of sole reliance on classroom-based environmental education in schools.",2024-12-20T11:56:21.168138,2024-12-20T16:50:31.273090,2024-12-20T16:28:34.754860,,,mindrxiv,1,accepted,1,1,https://doi.org/10.31231/osf.io/k5db6,CC-By Attribution 4.0 International,,[],Pooja Swami Sahni,"[{""id"": ""r2v8u"", ""name"": ""Pooja Swami Sahni"", ""index"": 0, ""orcid"": ""0000-0003-0592-0503"", ""bibliographic"": true}]",Pooja Swami Sahni,Education; Social and Behavioral Sciences,"[{""id"": ""59bacc2a54be8103332cb78e"", ""text"": ""Education""}, {""id"": ""59bacc2a54be8103332cb78f"", ""text"": ""Social and Behavioral Sciences""}]",https://osf.io/download/67655b90ee1de2ff43e4b83b,0,,no,available,"[""https://osf.io/94xfp/""]",prereg_both,2025-04-09T21:06:14.414988
mdp8z_v1,Cultivating Discomfort Resilience and Fierce Compassion to Uproot Racism and End Oppression,"Through heartful and engaged meditation practice, we may encounter painful emotions such as fear, grief, shame, anger, and self-loathing. Our mindful practices may thus become a source for developing discomfort resilience. Discomfort resilience is essential to our efforts to engage with others through meditative practices in order to end racism. This essay describes methods for the development of discomfort resilience and fierce compassion in service to our work to transform racism in our interior lives, in our interpersonal exchanges, and in the world around us.",2022-12-27T01:44:15.679649,2023-01-09T22:00:40.866868,2023-01-03T20:26:26.252677,,,mindrxiv,1,accepted,1,1,https://doi.org/10.31231/osf.io/mdp8z,CC-By Attribution 4.0 International,antiracism; compassion; discomfort resilience; heartfulness; meditation; mindfulness; racism,"[""antiracism"", ""compassion"", ""discomfort resilience"", ""heartfulness"", ""meditation"", ""mindfulness"", ""racism""]",Kamilah Majied,"[{""id"": ""g5qku"", ""name"": ""Kamilah Majied"", ""index"": 0, ""orcid"": """", ""bibliographic"": true}]",Kamilah Majied,Education; Social and Behavioral Sciences,"[{""id"": ""59bacc2a54be8103332cb78e"", ""text"": ""Education""}, {""id"": ""59bacc2a54be8103332cb78f"", ""text"": ""Social and Behavioral Sciences""}]",https://osf.io/download/63aa4df23312f10063687fcb,0,,not_applicable,not_applicable,[],,2025-04-09T20:49:59.535676
qvrj7_v1,"Who Are We, And What Is the Nature of Reality? Scientists’ Spiritually Transformative Experiences","Objective: To analyze the first-person phenomenological Spiritually Transformative Experiences (STEs) of a sample of scientists and academics.
Methods: The first-person phenomenological accounts of 40 scientists’ and/or academics’ Spiritual Transformative Experiences, were analyzed with respect to their perceived changes in the nature of the personal self and the nature of reality. 
Results: Eighty-five percent of experiencers described a dissolution of the boundaries of their personal self; this was experienced by 62.5% as a sense of boundless oneness, with the characteristics of pure unconditional love (45%). As to the nature of reality, 60% also experienced reality as unitive, and 47.5% of the experiencers described its essence as unconditional love, bliss, and luminosity (27.5%), with some describing it as filled with energy, intelligence and beyond time. 
Discussion: For all individuals, the experiences were considered truly real. For those who have not had similar experiences, their ontological status remains an empirical question.",2022-12-11T10:33:51.426159,2023-03-03T15:01:16.889774,2022-12-11T23:10:02.350698,,,mindrxiv,1,accepted,1,1,https://doi.org/10.31231/osf.io/qvrj7,CC-By Attribution 4.0 International,Spirituality; consciousness; reality; self; transormative experiences,"[""Spirituality"", ""consciousness"", ""reality"", ""self"", ""transormative experiences""]",Patrizio Tressoldi; Marjorie Woollacott,"[{""id"": ""q3mym"", ""name"": ""Patrizio Tressoldi"", ""index"": 0, ""orcid"": ""0000-0002-6404-0058"", ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""5yvwj"", ""name"": ""Marjorie Woollacott"", ""index"": 1, ""orcid"": null, ""bibliographic"": true}]",Patrizio Tressoldi,Social and Behavioral Sciences; Psychology; Transpersonal Psychology,"[{""id"": ""59bacc2a54be8103332cb78f"", ""text"": ""Social and Behavioral Sciences""}, {""id"": ""59bacc2b54be8103332cb7d5"", ""text"": ""Psychology""}, {""id"": ""59baec7454be810242f55311"", ""text"": ""Transpersonal Psychology""}]",https://osf.io/download/6395b2144cc86c0402115027,0,,available,no,[],,2025-04-09T20:50:06.778220
4zrmd_v1,Beyond kindness: a proposal for the flourishing of science and scientists,"We argue that many of the crises currently afflicting science can be associated with a present failure of science to sufficiently embody its own values. Here, we propose a response beyond mere crisis resolution based on the observation that an ethical framework of flourishing derived from the Buddhist tradition aligns surprisingly well with the values of science itself. This alignment, we argue, suggests a recasting of science from a competitively managed activity of knowledge production to a collaboratively organized moral practice that puts kindness and sharing at its core. We end by examining how a flourishing framework could be embodied in academic practice, from individual to organizational levels, and how that could help to arrive at a flourishing of scientists and science alike.",2022-12-05T21:38:42.877884,2023-05-29T12:52:14.738335,2022-12-05T23:16:26.042400,,,mindrxiv,1,accepted,1,1,https://doi.org/10.31231/osf.io/4zrmd,CC-By Attribution 4.0 International,academia; ethics; flourishing; management,"[""academia"", ""ethics"", ""flourishing"", ""management""]",Flourishing Science Think Tank,"[{""id"": ""gwhx3"", ""name"": ""Flourishing Science Think Tank"", ""index"": 0, ""orcid"": null, ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""u6inv"", ""name"": ""Marieke K. van Vugt"", ""index"": 1, ""orcid"": ""0000-0003-3200-0059"", ""bibliographic"": false}]",Flourishing Science Think Tank,Social and Behavioral Sciences; Other Social and Behavioral Sciences,"[{""id"": ""59bacc2a54be8103332cb78f"", ""text"": ""Social and Behavioral Sciences""}, {""id"": ""59bacc2b54be8103332cb7d8"", ""text"": ""Other Social and Behavioral Sciences""}]",https://osf.io/download/638e64e71af9111d1ebe9e44,0,,not_applicable,not_applicable,[],,2025-04-09T20:49:37.085871
g4ep2_v1,Different Ways of Attending to Experience: Formalizing the Phenomenological Epoché to Translate Between Science and Philosophy,"We examine the difference between attending to our mental states by looking 'within' and attending to the process of perceiving the object through a higher-order type of reflection. The distinction bears particular significance for the field of phenomenology as it corresponds to a crucial difference phenomenologists make between “introspection” (looking inward to examine our own mental states) and “phenomenological reflection” (a unique kind of higher-order act that looks at our perception of the world). In this paper, we attempt to show how they are two distinct ways of knowing ourselves in the world by comparing the models of their information processes. Taking the phenomenon whereby an agent perceives an object in the surrounding reality, we differentiate processes that obtain information from mental states resulting from a perceptive act, from ones which extract information from the perceptive act itself. Whilst in the former case, the perceived information remains within a single computation layer, the latter introduces a second, 'meta' order of computation. The structure of this distinction is reminiscent of informational processes in physical systems, in particular living ones. Similar meta layers are knowingly extremely common in those physical organizations as systems grow increasingly complex, thus allowing different computation types to combine. The benefit of this separation between computations is the capacity of variables from one layer to be coupled to ongoing dynamics in another, making for mutually constructive feedbacks. We use these formalisms to argue that resulting layering effects may enrich and clarify the distinction at issue.",2022-11-25T08:19:57.762283,2022-11-28T05:00:46.639091,2022-11-28T01:58:48.079542,2022-11-06T15:00:00,https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110647242,mindrxiv,1,accepted,1,1,https://doi.org/10.31231/osf.io/g4ep2,CC-By Attribution 4.0 International,Access and mediation; Attending to experience; Attention; Computation; Epoché; Experience; Feedback; Formalism; Information flows; Introspection; Layers; Mathematics; Mental states; Perception; Phenomenological reflection; Phenomenology; Philosophy; Psychology; Reality; Science; Theory of mind; Translation,"[""Access and mediation"", ""Attending to experience"", ""Attention"", ""Computation"", ""Epoch\u00e9"", ""Experience"", ""Feedback"", ""Formalism"", ""Information flows"", ""Introspection"", ""Layers"", ""Mathematics"", ""Mental states"", ""Perception"", ""Phenomenological reflection"", ""Phenomenology"", ""Philosophy"", ""Psychology"", ""Reality"", ""Science"", ""Theory of mind"", ""Translation""]",Olaf Witkowski; Yuko Ishihara,"[{""id"": ""dhrq7"", ""name"": ""Olaf Witkowski"", ""index"": 0, ""orcid"": ""0000-0002-2101-2428"", ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""fkmu2"", ""name"": ""Yuko Ishihara"", ""index"": 1, ""orcid"": null, ""bibliographic"": true}]",Olaf Witkowski,Physical Sciences and Mathematics; Life Sciences; Arts and Humanities; Philosophy; Philosophy of Science; Philosophy of Mind; Computer Sciences; Neuroscience and Neurobiology; Other Computer Sciences; Cognitive Neuroscience,"[{""id"": ""59bacc2a54be8103332cb78a"", ""text"": ""Physical Sciences and Mathematics""}, {""id"": ""59bacc2a54be8103332cb78c"", ""text"": ""Life Sciences""}, {""id"": ""59bacc2a54be8103332cb78d"", ""text"": ""Arts and Humanities""}, {""id"": ""59bacc2a54be8103332cb799"", ""text"": ""Philosophy""}, {""id"": ""59bacc2a54be8103332cb7a2"", ""text"": ""Philosophy of Science""}, {""id"": ""59bacc2b54be8103332cb7b7"", ""text"": ""Philosophy of Mind""}, {""id"": ""59bacc2b54be8103332cb7c6"", ""text"": ""Computer Sciences""}, {""id"": ""59bacc2b54be8103332cb7c8"", ""text"": ""Neuroscience and Neurobiology""}, {""id"": ""59bacc2b54be8103332cb7e5"", ""text"": ""Other Computer Sciences""}, {""id"": ""59bacc2c54be8103332cb7f5"", ""text"": ""Cognitive Neuroscience""}]",https://osf.io/download/63807ab1aac539114d82cb70,0,,not_applicable,not_applicable,[],,2025-04-09T20:49:52.891468
gxcym_v1,Studying dream experience through dream reports: Points of contact between dream research and first-person methods in consciousness science,"In this chapter, we present the problem of dream reports in philosophy and empirical research, examine how the variability of methods and measures influences research results, and suggest that research on the phenomenological features of dreaming could benefit from insights from first-person methods in consciousness research. We consider two interview-based methods developed for acquiring detailed phenomenological reports on waking subjective experience - descriptive experience sampling (Hurlburt, 1990, 2011) and micro-phenomenology (Petitmengin, 2006) - discuss their applicability in dream research, and outline some promising research directions. [Manuscript for a chapter in Dreaming and Memory: Philosophical Issues; prior to peer-review.]",2022-11-17T00:38:41.650751,2024-10-24T16:31:12.901239,2022-11-17T02:04:47.078164,,,mindrxiv,1,accepted,1,1,https://doi.org/10.31231/osf.io/gxcym,CC-By Attribution 4.0 International,consciousness; descriptive experience sampling; dream experience; dream research; dreams; experience reporting; first-person methods; micro-phenomenology; phenomenology,"[""consciousness"", ""descriptive experience sampling"", ""dream experience"", ""dream research"", ""dreams"", ""experience reporting"", ""first-person methods"", ""micro-phenomenology"", ""phenomenology""]",Ema Demšar; Jennifer Windt,"[{""id"": ""4w7ga"", ""name"": ""Ema Dem\u0161ar"", ""index"": 0, ""orcid"": ""0000-0003-2497-0936"", ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""z8mcu"", ""name"": ""Jennifer Windt"", ""index"": 1, ""orcid"": ""0000-0001-9862-8389"", ""bibliographic"": true}]",Ema Demšar,Life Sciences; Arts and Humanities; Social and Behavioral Sciences; Philosophy; Other Life Sciences; Philosophy of Science; Philosophy of Mind; Psychology; Theory and Philosophy; Cognitive Psychology,"[{""id"": ""59bacc2a54be8103332cb78c"", ""text"": ""Life Sciences""}, {""id"": ""59bacc2a54be8103332cb78d"", ""text"": ""Arts and Humanities""}, {""id"": ""59bacc2a54be8103332cb78f"", ""text"": ""Social and Behavioral Sciences""}, {""id"": ""59bacc2a54be8103332cb799"", ""text"": ""Philosophy""}, {""id"": ""59bacc2a54be8103332cb7a0"", ""text"": ""Other Life Sciences""}, {""id"": ""59bacc2a54be8103332cb7a2"", ""text"": ""Philosophy of Science""}, {""id"": ""59bacc2b54be8103332cb7b7"", ""text"": ""Philosophy of Mind""}, {""id"": ""59bacc2b54be8103332cb7d5"", ""text"": ""Psychology""}, {""id"": ""59bacc2c54be8103332cb7f4"", ""text"": ""Theory and Philosophy""}, {""id"": ""59bacc2c54be8103332cb813"", ""text"": ""Cognitive Psychology""}]",https://osf.io/download/637582942f45f50b41c69bfd,0,,not_applicable,not_applicable,[],,2025-04-09T20:49:38.178512
w3cp5_v1,Lovingkindness Meditation and Navigating Harm: a Community-Engaged Qualitative Study with Diverse Meditators during COVID-19,"Objectives: Inclusive research is needed to understand how contemplative practices are used by people across a range of identities. Lovingkindness meditation (LKM) may be particularly relevant for people to committed to equity and justice because of the social nature of the practice. Using community-based participatory research and an intersectional framework, this qualitative study focuses on how people in a diverse meditation community teach and practice lovingkindness or metta meditation.
Methods: In partnership between university researchers and a community-based meditation center, we conducted virtual focus groups on experiences with lovingkindness meditation during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. We used reflexive thematic analysis to analyze focus group data, with a member checking process. 
Results: 47 people participated in 6 focus groups (mean age 47; 62% LGBTQ+; 32% white, 23% Asian, 19% Black, 13% Hispanic/Latina/o, 24% multi-racial). Qualitative analysis revealed two central themes: (1) The use of skillful means to support diverse meditators’ participation in a community of practice, including adaptation to virtual-only formats during COVID-19; (2) Meditators’ use of metta to navigate harmful situations, both individual stressors and systems of oppression.  
Conclusions: Diverse participants in a meditation community found lovingkindness practice supportive for coping with the stress of microaggressions and structural oppression. They utilized LKM to navigate hardships caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, offer compassion to themselves and others, and cultivate the ability to hold multiple difficult emotions. Community-engaged approaches to meditation research are feasible during the COVID-19 pandemic and other times of crisis and should be used more widely.",2022-10-30T00:30:59.040416,2022-11-07T17:27:41.069906,2022-10-31T15:16:39.116822,,,mindrxiv,1,accepted,1,1,https://doi.org/10.31231/osf.io/w3cp5,CC-By Attribution 4.0 International,COVID-19; community engagement; contemplative practice; loving-kindness; meditation,"[""COVID-19"", ""community engagement"", ""contemplative practice"", ""loving-kindness"", ""meditation""]",Ariana Thompson-Lastad; shah noor hussein; Jessica Harrison; Xiaoyu Zhang; Mushim P. Ikeda; Maria Chao; Shelley Adler; Helen Weng,"[{""id"": ""qd2e4"", ""name"": ""Ariana Thompson-Lastad"", ""index"": 0, ""orcid"": ""0000-0002-4880-1371"", ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""ug8h2"", ""name"": ""shah noor hussein"", ""index"": 1, ""orcid"": null, ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""hrq73"", ""name"": ""Jessica Harrison"", ""index"": 2, ""orcid"": null, ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""b7ku8"", ""name"": ""Xiaoyu Zhang"", ""index"": 3, ""orcid"": null, ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""n7h4r"", ""name"": ""Mushim P. Ikeda"", ""index"": 4, ""orcid"": null, ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""5487d"", ""name"": ""Maria Chao"", ""index"": 5, ""orcid"": null, ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""rkwms"", ""name"": ""Shelley Adler"", ""index"": 6, ""orcid"": null, ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""nf7zy"", ""name"": ""Helen Weng"", ""index"": 7, ""orcid"": null, ""bibliographic"": true}]",Ariana Thompson-Lastad,Medicine and Health Sciences; Alternative and Complementary Medicine,"[{""id"": ""59bacc2a54be8103332cb78b"", ""text"": ""Medicine and Health Sciences""}, {""id"": ""59bacc2a54be8103332cb79e"", ""text"": ""Alternative and Complementary Medicine""}]",https://osf.io/download/635dc5c625fea30a113bc71e,0,,no,no,[],,2025-04-09T20:50:05.863507
desyu_v1,An 18-month meditation training selectively improves psychological well-being in older adults,"Objectives: As the world population is ageing, it is vital to understand how older adults can maintain and deepen their psychological well-being as they are confronted with the unique challenges of ageing in a complex and vulnerable world. Theoretical work has highlighted the promising role of intentional mental training such as meditation practice for enhancing human flourishing. However, meditation-based randomised controlled trials in older adults are lacking. We aimed to investigate the effects of meditation training on psychological well-being in older adults.
Methods: The Age-Well trial (ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT02977819) randomised 137 healthy older adults to an 18-month meditation training (9-month mindfulness followed by 9-month compassion and loving-kindness training), a structurally matched active comparator (English language training), or a passive control. Well-being was measured at baseline, mid-intervention, and 18-month post-randomisation using the Psychological Well-being Scale (PWBS), the World Health Organisation’s Quality of Life (QoL) Assessment psychological subscale, and composite scores reflecting meditation-based well-being dimensions of awareness, connection, insight, and a global score comprising the average of these three meditation-based dimensions. Mixed effects models assessed between- and within-group differences in change over 18 months.
Results: Meditation training was superior to English training on changes in the global score and the subscales of awareness, connection, insight, and superior to no-intervention only on changes in the global score and awareness. Between-group differences in psychological QoL in favour of meditation did not remain significant after adjusting for multiple comparisons. There were no between-group differences in PWBS total score. Within the meditation group, psychological QoL, awareness, insight, and the global score increased significantly from baseline to 18-month post-randomisation. Exploratory moderator analyses suggested that greater levels of well-being at baseline predicted smaller improvements for most well-being outcomes.
Conclusion: The longest randomised meditation training conducted to date enhanced a global composite score reflecting the meditation-based well-being dimensions of awareness, connection, and insight in older adults. Future research is needed to delineate the cognitive, affective, and behavioural factors that predict responsiveness to meditation and thus help refine the development and efficacy of tailored meditation-based interventions.",2022-10-20T12:38:52.467931,2022-11-01T05:02:22.194142,2022-10-31T15:17:58.021609,,,mindrxiv,1,accepted,1,1,https://doi.org/10.31231/osf.io/desyu,CC-By Attribution 4.0 International,,[],Marco Schlosser; olga klimecki; Fabienne Collette; Julie Gonneaud; Matthias Kliegel; Natalie L. Marchant; Gaël Chételat; Antoine Lutz,"[{""id"": ""wgejf"", ""name"": ""Marco Schlosser"", ""index"": 0, ""orcid"": """", ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""s7gmr"", ""name"": ""olga klimecki"", ""index"": 1, ""orcid"": ""0000-0003-0757-7761"", ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""v2j8n"", ""name"": ""Fabienne Collette"", ""index"": 2, ""orcid"": ""0000-0001-9288-9756"", ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""hs47m"", ""name"": ""Julie Gonneaud"", ""index"": 3, ""orcid"": null, ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""nmpw2"", ""name"": ""Matthias Kliegel"", ""index"": 4, ""orcid"": ""0000-0002-2001-2522"", ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""hv3ts"", ""name"": ""Natalie L. Marchant"", ""index"": 5, ""orcid"": ""0000-0003-0669-6910"", ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""zjqd2"", ""name"": ""Ga\u00ebl Ch\u00e9telat"", ""index"": 6, ""orcid"": null, ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""4dwkm"", ""name"": ""Antoine Lutz"", ""index"": 7, ""orcid"": null, ""bibliographic"": true}]",Marco Schlosser,Medicine and Health Sciences; Social and Behavioral Sciences; Psychiatry and Psychology; Mental and Social Health; Psychology; Psychological Phenomena and Processes; Health Psychology; Psychiatric and Mental Health,"[{""id"": ""59bacc2a54be8103332cb78b"", ""text"": ""Medicine and Health Sciences""}, {""id"": ""59bacc2a54be8103332cb78f"", ""text"": ""Social and Behavioral Sciences""}, {""id"": ""59bacc2a54be8103332cb7a5"", ""text"": ""Psychiatry and Psychology""}, {""id"": ""59bacc2b54be8103332cb7d0"", ""text"": ""Mental and Social Health""}, {""id"": ""59bacc2b54be8103332cb7d5"", ""text"": ""Psychology""}, {""id"": ""59bacc2b54be8103332cb7d7"", ""text"": ""Psychological Phenomena and Processes""}, {""id"": ""59bacc2c54be8103332cb804"", ""text"": ""Health Psychology""}, {""id"": ""59bacc2c54be8103332cb807"", ""text"": ""Psychiatric and Mental Health""}]",https://osf.io/download/6351417993d3520c6591bbc1,1,"GC has received research support from the EU’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement number 667696), Inserm, Fondation d’entreprise MMA des Entrepreneurs du Futur, Fondation Alzheimer, Programme Hospitalier de Recherche Clinique, Région Normandie, Association France Alzheimer et maladies apparentées and Fondation Vaincre Alzheimer (all to Inserm), and personal fees from Fondation d’entreprise MMA des Entrepreneurs du Futur. All other authors have no relevant financial or non-financial interests to disclose.",no,available,"[""https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02977819""]",prereg_designs,2025-04-09T20:50:08.800351
p5axy_v1,"The Qwantify app dataset: A remote experience sampling study of desire, emotion, and well-being","Experiences of desire – the feeling of wanting to have, do, or experience something – are pervasive and varied. Recent theoretical advances draw attention to characterizing this variation. Thus, this study investigated experiences of desire in everyday life and co-occurring social, physical, and emotional states, including facets of emotional experiences known to be related to well-being (e.g., perceived loneliness and stress). The Qwantify app was designed to run a remote experience sampling study. Through the app, participants were randomly alerted during their daily life to report on their experience in the moment. During the data collection period, any individual could download the freely available Qwantify app and participate in the study, without providing identifying information or communicating with researchers. Similar to other remote experience sampling studies, an incentive for participants to engage in the study was unlocking visualizations of their own data. Over 600 participants downloaded the app, completed the sign-up process, and responded to at least one experience sampling alert. Approximately 40% of these participants went on to respond to 50 alerts. The purpose of this report is to describe this experience sampling dataset such that it can be used to test a variety of hypotheses, including hypotheses regarding individual differences.",2022-09-28T18:29:38.930751,2022-12-23T22:20:47.680020,2022-09-28T19:09:14.133553,,https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1054292,mindrxiv,1,accepted,1,1,https://doi.org/10.31231/osf.io/p5axy,CC-By Attribution 4.0 International,desire; emotion; experience sampling method; meditation; wanting; well-being,"[""desire"", ""emotion"", ""experience sampling method"", ""meditation"", ""wanting"", ""well-being""]",Christine Wilson-Mendenhall; Paul Condon; Wendy Hasenkamp; George MacKerron; Karen Quigley; Lisa Feldman Barrett,"[{""id"": ""zpe9f"", ""name"": ""Christine Wilson-Mendenhall"", ""index"": 0, ""orcid"": ""0000-0002-6081-1636"", ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""k9234"", ""name"": ""Paul Condon"", ""index"": 1, ""orcid"": ""0000-0002-1029-3236"", ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""hjp6b"", ""name"": ""Wendy Hasenkamp"", ""index"": 2, ""orcid"": """", ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""kwjad"", ""name"": ""George MacKerron"", ""index"": 3, ""orcid"": null, ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""vgwnp"", ""name"": ""Karen Quigley"", ""index"": 4, ""orcid"": ""0000-0001-8844-990X"", ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""a75gq"", ""name"": ""Lisa Feldman Barrett"", ""index"": 5, ""orcid"": null, ""bibliographic"": true}]",Christine Wilson-Mendenhall,Social and Behavioral Sciences; Psychology,"[{""id"": ""59bacc2a54be8103332cb78f"", ""text"": ""Social and Behavioral Sciences""}, {""id"": ""59bacc2b54be8103332cb7d5"", ""text"": ""Psychology""}]",https://osf.io/download/633492950db48e01b9e12024,1,"Wendy Hasenkamp was employed by the Mind & Life Institute at the time of this study. George MacKerron was the CTO of Psychological Technologies (PSYT), the company who was paid to develop the Qwantify app, at the time of this study. Christine Wilson-Mendenhall has served as a consultant to the nonprofit Healthy Minds Innovations.",available,no,[],,2025-04-09T20:49:49.507577
uy47n_v1,Shifting Baselines: Longitudinal Reductions in EEG Beta Band Power Characterize Resting Brain Activity with Intensive Meditation,"Objectives
A core assumption of meditation training is that cognitive capacities developed during formal practice will transfer to other contexts or activities as expertise develops over time. This implies that meditation training might influence domain-general neurocognitive systems, the spontaneous activity of which should be reflected in the dynamics of the resting brain. Previous research has demonstrated that 3 months of meditation training led to reductions in EEG beta band power during mindfulness of breathing practice. The current study extends these findings to ask whether concomitant shifts in power are observed during 2 min of eyes closed rest, when participants are not explicitly engaged in formal meditation.

Methods
Experienced meditation practitioners were randomly assigned to practice 3 months of focused attention meditation in a residential retreat, or to serve as waitlist controls. The waitlist controls later completed their own 3-month retreat. Permutation-based cluster analysis of 88-channel resting EEG data was used to test for spectral changes in spontaneous brain activity over the course of the retreats.

Results
Longitudinal reductions in EEG power in the beta frequency range were identified and replicated across the two independent training periods. Less robust reductions were also observed in the high alpha frequency range, and in individual peak alpha frequency. These changes closely mirror those previously observed during formal mindfulness of breathing meditation practice.

Conclusions
These findings suggest that the neurocognitive effects of meditation training can extend beyond the bounds of formal practice, influencing the spontaneous activity of the resting brain. Rather than serving as an invariant baseline, resting states might carry meaningful training-related effects, blurring the line between state and trait change.",2022-09-20T19:24:25.795493,2022-09-21T05:00:42.395684,2022-09-20T20:39:22.795667,2022-09-20T07:00:00,https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-022-01974-9,mindrxiv,1,accepted,1,1,https://doi.org/10.31231/osf.io/uy47n,CC-By Attribution 4.0 International,beta; domain generalization; eeg; meditation; mindfulness; resting state; shamatha project; state versus trait,"[""beta"", ""domain generalization"", ""eeg"", ""meditation"", ""mindfulness"", ""resting state"", ""shamatha project"", ""state versus trait""]",Alea C. Skwara; Brandon King; Anthony P. Zanesco; Clifford Saron,"[{""id"": ""fqsn8"", ""name"": ""Alea C. Skwara"", ""index"": 0, ""orcid"": ""0000-0002-9697-7603"", ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""cmqxp"", ""name"": ""Brandon King"", ""index"": 1, ""orcid"": ""0000-0002-0919-592X"", ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""vkm3n"", ""name"": ""Anthony P. Zanesco"", ""index"": 2, ""orcid"": ""0000-0003-3476-3375"", ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""stj9y"", ""name"": ""Clifford Saron"", ""index"": 3, ""orcid"": ""0000-0002-2280-4996"", ""bibliographic"": true}]",Alea C. Skwara,Social and Behavioral Sciences; Psychology; Cognitive Psychology,"[{""id"": ""59bacc2a54be8103332cb78f"", ""text"": ""Social and Behavioral Sciences""}, {""id"": ""59bacc2b54be8103332cb7d5"", ""text"": ""Psychology""}, {""id"": ""59bacc2c54be8103332cb813"", ""text"": ""Cognitive Psychology""}]",https://osf.io/download/632a136d555fe20a2d7a8f97,0,,available,no,[],,2025-04-09T20:50:02.523322