Pulling yourself together: Meditation promotes congruence between implicit and explicit self-esteem |
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| Authors: | Sander L Koole Olesya Govorun Clara Michelle Cheng Marcello Gallucci |
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| Institution: | aDepartment of Social Psychology, VU University Amsterdam, Van der Boechorststraat 1, 1081 BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands;bTNS, 600 Vine Street, Suite 300 cincinnati, OH 45202, USA;cDepartment of Psychology, 321 Asbury Building, American University, Washington, DC 20016-8062, USA;dFaculty of Psychology, University of Milan-Bicocca, viale dell’Innovazione 10 (U9), 20126 Milan, Italy |
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| Abstract: | Self-reported or explicit self-esteem frequently conflicts with indirectly assessed, implicit self-esteem. The present research investigated whether meditation may reduce such inner conflicts by promoting congruence between implicit and explicit self-esteem. Relative to control conditions, meditation led to greater congruence between explicit self-esteem, assessed via self-report, and implicit self-esteem, indicated by name-letter preference (Studies 1 and 2). Low implicit self-esteem was further associated with a slow-down of explicit self-evaluation (Study 2), an effect that mediated the greater congruence between implicit and explicit self-esteem in the meditation condition. These results suggest that meditation encourages people to rely more on intuitive feelings of self-worth. |
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| Keywords: | (Implicit) self-esteem Name-letter preference Meditation Mindfulness |
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