Katy Young, Daily Life: A new study has suggested that mindfulness can short-circuit our negative associations. According to research carried out by Central Michigan University, a little bit of mindfulness and meditation decreases our knee-jerk damaging bias, even when it comes to negative attitudes around race and age, reports psmag.com.
Led by psychologists Adam Lueke and Bryan Gibson, the study investigated whether 72 subjects would respond differently to images of black and white faces, as well as younger and older faces, after listening to a 10-minute mindfulness talk based on Budhist principles (essentially teaching us to …
