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Awareness of subtle emotional feelings: a comparison of long-term meditators and nonmeditators

Nielsen, Lisbeth, Kaszniak, Alfred W.·2006·Emotion
DOI 10.1037/1528-3542.6.3.392
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The authors explored whether meditation training to enhance emotional awareness improves discrimination of subtle emotional feelings hypothesized to guide decision-making. Long-term meditators and nonmeditators were compared on measures of self-reported valence and arousal, skin conductance response (SCR), and facial electromyography (EMG) to masked and nonmasked emotional pictures, and on measures of heartbeat detection and self-reported emotional awareness. Groups responded similarly to nonmasked pictures. In the masked condition, only controls showed discrimination in valence self-reports. However, meditators reported greater emotional clarity than controls, and meditators with higher clarity had reduced arousal and improved valence discrimination in the masked condition. These findings provide qualified support for the somatic marker hypothesis and suggest that meditation may influence how emotionally ambiguous information is processed, regulated, and represented in conscious awareness.

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Authors
Nielsen, L., & Kaszniak, A. W.
Affiliations
National Institutes of Health (US)
Venue
Emotion
Publisher
American Psychological Association (APA)
Published
2006-08
Volume
6
Issue
3
Pages
392-405
ISSN
  • 1528-3542 (ISSN-L)
  • 1931-1516
DOI
10.1037/1528-3542.6.3.392
OpenAlex
W2157676123
Cited by
202
References
67
Citations by year
2026: 6 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 24 · 2022: 11 · 2021: 7 · 2020: 14 · 2019: 12 · 2018: 12 · 2017: 15 · 2016: 10 · 2015: 11 · 2014: 11 · 2013: 10 · 2012: 13
FWCI
4.05
Type
journal article
Language
en
Update notices
correction (2007-11-26)
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Emotion (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
University of Arizona
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
Keywords
emotional awareness, meditation, long-term meditators, emotional arousal, somatic marker hypothesis, emotional ambiguity, skin conductance response, facial electromyography, heartbeat detection, emotional clarity, decision-making
MeSH terms
Adult, Aged, Arousal, Attention, Awareness, Decision Making, Electromyography, Emotions, Facial Expression, Female, Galvanic Skin Response, Heart Rate, Humans, Individuality, Male, Middle Aged, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Perceptual Masking, Personality Inventory, Psychophysiology, Signal Detection, Psychological, Meditation, Intuition

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