Loving kindness meditation
Authors: Hutcherson CA, Seppala EM, Gross JJ.
Year: 2008
Title: Loving-kindness meditation increases social connectedness
Summary: This research examines the relationship between social connectedness and meditation. It discusses whether social connectedness could be created toward strangers in a controlled laboratory context. The findings imply that even brief exposure to loving kindness meditation (LKM) may offer some relief from the experience from social isolation.
Perspective: Social cognitive, neuroscience
Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18837623
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