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Buddhist meditation practices, including Samadhi meditation, which forms the basis for mindfulness practice, are broadly promoted as pathways to wellbeing, but evidence of their adverse effects is emerging. In a single-group observational study with assessments of autonomic system before, during, and after Samadhi meditation, we explore the relatio...
This study explores the dynamics of coping strategies of Czech religious leaders during a peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. An interpretative phenomenological analysis reveals that mental health among pastors is closely linked to a need to maintain community and social contact, while physical health is related to limitations upon ritual elements. In a...
In the article “What are neural correlates neural correlates of?” published in the journal BioSocieties, Gabriel Abend points out that neuroscientists cannot avoid philosophical questions concerning the conceptualization and operationalization of social-psychological phenomena they deal with at the physiological level. In this article, we build on...
People in a state of awe have been found to perceive their needs as small while also expressing intentions to act in a prosocial way, benefitting others at personal cost. However, these findings come largely out of the USA and have focused on intended rather than real prosocial behavior. We propose a contextual model of the awe-prosociality relatio...
The relationship between religion and social behavior has been the subject of longstanding debates. Recent evolutionary models of religious morality propose that particular types of supernatural beliefs related to moralizing and punitive high gods will have observable effects on prosociality. We tested this hypothesis, comparing the effects of dive...
Meditace jsou od 60. let 20. století stabilní součástí moderního vědeckého výzkumu. V rámci psychologie jsou meditace chápány často terapeuticky, co je spojeno s misijními strategiemi buddhistických skupin směrem na Západ. Tato tendence určila i další psychologický výzkumný program a vedla k „naivní“ psychologizaci a homogenizaci meditací ignorujíc...
Meditations have been a steady object of modern scientific research since 1960s. In psychology have been stressed their positive effect on one’s health as a part of missionary efforts of Buddhists in the West and led to naive psychologisation of meditations ignoring their cultural, historical and
religious aspects in a research. This tendency is as...
Priming with religious concepts is known to have a positive effect on prosocial behavior, however the effects of religious primes associated with outgroups remain unknown. To explore this, we conducted a field experiment in a multi-cultural, multi-religious setting (the island of Mauritius). Our design used naturally occurring, ecologically relevan...
Meditations have been a steady object of modern scientific research since 1960s. In psychology have been stressed their positive effect on one's health as a part of missionary efforts of Buddhists in the West and led to naive psychologisation of meditations ignoring their cultural, historical and religious aspects in a research. This tendency is as...
This dissertation thesis deals with contemporary research on Buddhist meditation techniques and related states of consciousness from the critical perspective of the cognitive science of religion. Theoretical problems connected to the correlation between mental and physiological processes (psychophysical problem) are discussed. Possible solutions ar...
Recent development in Cognitive sciences shows that quantitative behavioral methods of research are insuficient in description and explanation of some aspects of mind, especially of the most intriguing ones as is will or consciousness. Yet introspection or phenomenological description of mental phenomena do not lead to heuristic results either. Thi...
The theses “How to explore the meditation? What about cognitive science?” deals with Buddhist meditation techniques from cognitive point of view and its main object is their cognitive analysis on the basis of normal mental processing. The article doesn’t emulate at any rate to underline the cognitive approach, but also displays its dificulty and po...
