Affect and motivation are critical in constructive meditation
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Compassion can be viewed as an emotion-regulation strategy that buffers negative affect through the active generation of positive affect relying on reward-related and affiliation-related brain circuitries.
“Compassion can thus be viewed as an emotionregulation strategy that buffers negative affect through the active generation of positive affect relying on rewardrelated and affiliation-related brain circuitries.”
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- Authors
- Engen, H. G., & Singer, T.
- Affiliations
- Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Singer, Tania
- Venue
- Trends in Cognitive Sciences
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2016-03
- Volume
- 20
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 159-160
- ISSN
- 1364-6613 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2215071311
- Cited by
- 31
- References
- 13
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 11 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 1
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Trends in Cognitive Sciences (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Indian and Buddhist Studies
- Keywords
- compassion meditation, loving-kindness meditation, affect, motivation, cognitive reappraisal, perspective taking, self-regulation
- MeSH terms
- Attention, Awareness, Cognition, Humans, Self Concept, Meditation
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