Catherine Juneau

McGill University | McGill · Department of Psychology

In two randomized controlled trials, we tested the effect of two attentional mindfulness meditation practices on positive mental health. We hypothesized that attentional meditation would increase various positive emotions (gratitude, interest, hope, pride, elevation, and awe) via three processes induced by mindfulness (body awareness, meta-awarenes...

In this paper, we present a study comprising two distinct stages to examine the extent to which metacognitive processes of decentering facilitate the emergence of self-transcendence experiences in everyday life (i.e., the frequency of self-transcendent emotions, flow proneness, and adopting an interconnected identity). In the course of conducting t...

Objectives Previous research consistently indicates that individuals who experience greater obstruction to valued living report higher levels of psychological distress and are at greater risk of developing mental health problems. Equanimity, which involves a calm and balanced mental attitude towards all experiences, is thought to protect against ps...

Abstract: In two RCT, we tested the effect of two attentional mindfulness meditation practices on positive mental health. We hypothesized that attentional meditation would increase various positive emotions (gratitude, interest, hope, pride, elevation, and awe) via three processes induced by mindfulness (body awareness, meta-awareness, and self-tra...

Background: It has been proven that vaccination is effective against Human Papillomavirus (HPV) infections, genital warts, and pre-cancerous and cancerous cervical lesions. Nevertheless, the HPV vaccine coverage of 37.4 % in 2021 in France is one of the lowest in Europe. To explore and understand the reason why French population is so late compare...

Objectives We investigated the effect of mindfulness meditation on self-location in novices. We mainly hypothesized that meditation exercises tend to redirect where individuals locate themselves toward the body area of attention during practice. Method Participants were randomly assigned to either a body scan meditation, a breathing meditation, or...

Background We previously conducted a single-profile discrete choice experiment to elicit preferences of adolescents around HPV vaccine communication, finding that only half of participants made variable choices (non-uniform respondents) from which preferences were elicited. In this paper we provide a framework to evaluate post-choice certainty info...

A person’s tendency to approach pleasant stimuli and to avoid unpleasant stimulireflects a basic psychological phenomenon. The present research aimed toinvestigate the extent to which mindfulness practices and trait equanimity canattenuate this motivational process. In two studies, participants were asked toperform an Approach/Avoidance Task (AAT)....

La littérature sur la pleine conscience, ou mindfulness, est maintenant foisonnante et indique un certain nombre d’effets bénéfiques de cette pratique sur la santé mentale et le bien-être. La régulation des émotions a été identifiée comme une capacité centrale qui se développe grâce à la pratique de la pleine conscience, celle-ci permettant d’expli...

Background Many studies have revealed the positive impact of mindfulness training on mental health and proposed equanimity as a general outcome in contemplative research. Despite recent interest, relatively few studies have empirically examined equanimity and measurement instruments are still lacking. The main goal of this study was to develop an E...

Objectives Buddhist and scientific theories have described equanimity as a general outcome of mindfulness practices. Equanimity is a calm and balanced state of mind regardless of the valence of situations or objects and is a decoupling between the evaluation of this valence and the resulting common automatic approach or avoidance reactions. The rel...

Common processes underlying the effects of exposure to unattainable beauty standards and their regulation are currently poorly understood. The present study therefore investigates the impact of this exposure on executive inhibitory control. Between two blocks of a semantic Stroop task, seventy-two healthy young women were exposed to pictures of a t...

Objectives This systematic review and meta-analysis sought to evaluate the efficacy of mindfulness-based programs (MBPs) on eating disorder (ED) symptoms and related outcomes such as BMI, body dissatisfaction, emotion regulation, and negative affect. It also examined moderators that predicted larger intervention effects. Methods A search for studi...

Objectives: The main aim of this paper was to investigate the processes by which body scan meditation (BSM) increases happiness. We hypothesized that BMS would lead to a transition from the narrative self to the minimal self, but also and more importantly to a transition from the minimal self to a state of more unified consciousness characterized b...

Background: Many studies have revealed the positive impact of mindfulness training on mental health and proposed equanimity as a general outcome in contemplative research. Despite recent interest, relatively few studies have examined equanimity empirically and measurement instruments are still lacking. The main goal of this study was to develop an...

This paper highlights the fact that numerous ways of implementing what is commonly referred to as the Stroop task in both psychological research and practice are based on obsolete methodological and theoretical knowledge. As a consequence, the Stroop interference brought about by these implementations is a) often over estimated and b) does not allo...

Résumé Destiné autant aux chercheurs qu’aux praticiens, le présent article argumente que de nombreuses implémentations actuelles de ce que l’on appelle de manière générique la tâche Stroop , reposent sur des connaissances méthodologiques et théoriques aujourd’hui dépassées. Il en résulte que l’interférence Stroop mise en évidence par les différente...

This paper highlights the fact that numerous ways of implementing what is commonly referred to as the Stroop task in both psychological research and practice are based on obsolete methodological and theoretical knowledge. As a consequence, the Stroop interference brought about by these implementations is a) often over estimated and b) does not allo...