SIO330: Does Meditation Reduce Prosocial Behavior?
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
By popular request, Lindsey will be taking us through this fascinating science-thingy! Certain kinds of meditation can reduce feelings like guilt, sadness, etc. But is that good? Does it make people less likely to help others in different ways? Find out!
Links: Mindfulness Meditation Reduces Guilt and Prosocial Reparation, popular coverage
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Series Inquiries only. This is episode 330. I'm Thomas. That's Dr. |
| 0:17.6 | Lindsey Osterman. How are you doing Lindsey? Yeah, you know. It's true. We're still, it's |
| 0:24.1 | still all row all the time for me. Like I'm just this kind of what I'm thinking about all the time. |
| 0:28.7 | Yeah, I'm getting used to my wings. I hope that you don't notice an extra echo here. It's |
| 0:32.6 | a little cavernous. What? The things that they wear on their heads that call them wings. |
| 0:38.4 | Oh, they call those wings. Oh, okay. Sorry. I forgot about that. |
| 0:43.6 | Couldn't remember the terminology. I got, but you know, I'd better get to, I'd better study it. |
| 0:47.2 | I got to know it, you know. That's right. Yeah. I want to, so at the end of last episode, |
| 0:52.2 | I had like the very spontaneous idea of people sharing their stories. And I just wanted to like |
| 0:57.3 | put a finer point on that. I've gotten several responses. But I should clarify, I am envisioning |
| 1:04.0 | people doing little interviews with people. And there's absolutely every chance to remain |
| 1:09.2 | anonymous in that. Just wanted to throw that out there. Keep that in mind if you're somebody who |
| 1:13.9 | was considering sharing or emailing or whatever. I'm going to respond to everybody when we can figure |
| 1:18.4 | out what's going to look like when we can schedule and everything. But thanks for emailing. Thanks |
| 1:22.5 | for contacting me. Really appreciate it. That's what I'm envisioning. And if that's something you |
| 1:26.8 | don't want to do, not comfortable with, totally cool. So keep that in mind. I still very much want to |
| 1:31.1 | do that project. But in the meantime, yeah, yeah. In the meantime, let's find out how these people |
| 1:38.0 | who are ruining our lives are okay with it. No, not exactly related more, but though maybe. |
| 1:44.5 | This was an article shared in the group, a science thingy in need of a lensing by Marcus. |
| 1:50.8 | And just the right away, the title, I already love it. Mindfulness meditation reduces |
| 1:56.0 | prosocial, repetitive behaviors by buffering people against feelings of guilt. I love this so |
| 2:02.0 | much. I'm very curious about this. I've honestly, this is something I think about even outside of |
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