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Social mindfulness: skill and will to navigate the social world.

Van Doesum, Niels J., Van Lange, Dion A. W., Van Lange, Paul A. M.·2013·Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
DOI 10.1037/a0032540
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Although one may not always see it, social life often involves choices that make people act in ways that are mindful of others or not. We adopt an interdependence theoretical approach to the novel concept of social mindfulness, which we conceptualize in terms of other-regarding choices involving both skill (to see it, e.g., theory of mind, perspective taking) and will (to do it, e.g., empathic concern, prosocial orientation) to act mindfully toward another person's control over outcomes. We operationalized social mindfulness in a new social decision-making paradigm that focuses on leaving or limiting choice options for others that we tested across 7 studies. Studies 1a through 1c showed that people with other-oriented mindsets left interdependent others more choice than people with self-oriented and/or unspecified mindsets. Studies 2a and 2b revealed that people developed more favorable judgments of a socially mindful than of a socially unmindful person. Study 3 revealed that unknown others with trustworthy (vs. untrustworthy) faces were met with more social mindfulness. Study 4 revealed that social mindfulness could be traced in personality by being positively related to Honesty-Humility and Agreeableness (HEXACO Personality Inventory-Revised) as well as to Empathy (Interpersonal Reactivity Index) and a prosocial value orientation (SVO). Together, these studies contribute to explaining how social mindfulness can help people to navigate the social world by aiming to maximize other people's control over their situational outcomes.

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  • Established social cognitive and mindfulness theories assert that mindfulness fosters emotional connection to others, mental state attribution, and prosocial behavior.

    “Findings from the present study are in line with established social cognitive and mindfulness theories, which assert that mindfulness fosters emotional connection to others, mental state attribution, and prosocial behavior (Hutcherson et al., 2008; Birnie et al., 2010; Van Doesum et al., 2013; Tan et al., 2014; Lim et al., 2015).”

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Authors
Van Doesum, N. J., Van Lange, D. A. W., & Van Lange, P. A. M.
Venue
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Publisher
American Psychological Association (APA)
Published
2013
Volume
105
Issue
1
Pages
86-103
ISSN
  • 0022-3514 (ISSN-L)
  • 1939-1315
DOI
10.1037/a0032540
OpenAlex
W2168510599
Cited by
241
References
77
Citations by year
2026: 21 · 2025: 31 · 2024: 26 · 2023: 19 · 2022: 23 · 2021: 19 · 2020: 20 · 2019: 19 · 2018: 16 · 2017: 12 · 2016: 9 · 2015: 13 · 2014: 11 · 2013: 2
FWCI
12.95
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • VU Research Portal (publishedVersion)
  • VU Research Portal (submittedVersion)
  • Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
Funders
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (022.003.040)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Emotions and Moral Behavior
Keywords
social mindfulness, interdependence theory, theory of mind, perspective taking, empathic concern, prosocial orientation, social decision-making, HEXACO personality, honesty-humility, agreeableness, Interpersonal Reactivity Index, trust
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Choice Behavior, Concept Formation, Decision Making, Empathy, Female, Humans, Judgment, Male, Middle Aged, Netherlands, Personality, Social Behavior, United States, Young Adult, Theory of Mind, Mindfulness

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