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Ash, Elliott, Sgroi, Daniel, Tuckwell, Anthony and Zhuo, Shi (2023) Mindfulness reduces information avoidance. Economics Letters, 224 . 110997. doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2023.110997 ISSN 0165-1765.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2023.110997
Abstract
Mindfulness meditation has been found to influence various important outcomes such as health, stress, depression, productivity, and altruism. We report evidence from a randomised-controlled trial on a previously untested effect of mindfulness: information avoidance. We find that a relatively short mindfulness treatment (two weeks, 15 min a day) is able to induce a reduction in information avoidance — that is, avoiding information that may cause worry or regret. Supplementary evidence supports mindfulness’s effects on emotion regulation as a possible mechanism for the effect.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD61 Risk Management H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Information behavior -- Research, Mindfulness (Psychology), Decision making -- Psychological aspects, Econometric models, Clinical trials | ||||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Economics Letters | ||||||||||||
Publisher: | Elsevier | ||||||||||||
ISSN: | 0165-1765 | ||||||||||||
Official Date: | March 2023 | ||||||||||||
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Volume: | 224 | ||||||||||||
Article Number: | 110997 | ||||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.econlet.2023.110997 | ||||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||||||
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