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Positive psychological states in the arc from mindfulness to self-transcendence: extensions of the Mindfulness-to-Meaning Theory and applications to addiction and chronic pain treatment

Current Opinion in Psychology, 2019
The Mindfulness-to-Meaning Theory (MMT) is a temporally dynamic process model of mindful positive emotion regulation that elucidates downstream cognitive-affective mechanisms by which mindfulness promotes health and resilience.
Eric L Garland, Barbara L Fredrickson
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Self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-transcendence (S-ART): a framework for understanding the neurobiological mechanisms of mindfulness

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2012
Mindfulness—as a state, trait, process, type of meditation, and intervention has proven to be beneficial across a diverse group of psychological disorders as well as for general stress reduction.
David R Vago
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Why Awe Promotes Prosocial Behaviors? The Mediating Effects of Future Time Perspective and Self-Transcendence Meaning of Life

Frontiers in Psychology, 2019
Awe is an emotion experience when individuals encounter with such powerful stimulate beyond their own understanding. Guided by conceptual analysis of awe as a trait positive emotion, we tested the hypothesis that dispositional awe results in an ...
Kai Dou
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Effects of self-transcendence on neural responses to persuasive messages and health behavior change

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018
Significance People often feel defensive when reminded of their unhealthy behavior. We propose that self-transcendence, encouraged by focusing on others’ well-being, can lessen subsequent focus on threatened aspects of the self and increase receptivity ...
Nicole Cooper, Prateekshit Pandey, Christin Scholz   +2 more
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Examining interpersonal self-transcendence as a potential mechanism linking meditation and social outcomes

Current Opinion in Psychology, 2019
Distinct types of meditation practice addressed in this review can help cultivate skills people may bring to later social interactions. We examine self-transcendence, or the drive to benefit others beyond the self, as a key mechanism through which ...
Yoona Kang
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Historical Oppression, Resilience, and Transcendence: Can a Holistic Framework Help Explain Violence Experienced by Indigenous People?

Social Work, 2017
Catherine E. Burnette, Charles R. Figley
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Inspired by awe: Awe promotes inspiration via self-transcendence

Journal of Positive Psychology, 2023
Whether and how awe impacts inspiration lacks sufficient empirical research. We conducted five studies (N = 941) to examine the awe – inspiration link and the mediating effect of self-transcendence.
Yuwan Dai, Tonglin Jiang
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The Experience of Self-Transcendence in Social Activists

Behavioral Science, 2023
Every day the wellbeing of disadvantaged individuals and communities is being transformed through the activities of self-transcendent social activists.
C. Barton, R. Hart
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Transcendence

Brain vs Computer, 2020
Jamie Katz
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Transcending the self to transcend suffering

Frontiers in Psychology, 2023
Suffering is inevitable in human life. Our perspective paper theorizes on precise mechanisms for how self-transcendence—the state in which an individual looks beyond the self and adopts a larger perspective including concern for others and the world—may help people endure the experience of suffering.
Brian H. Ge, Fan Yang
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