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Does mindfulness aid insight problem solving? New study suggest so
A new study (Ostafin, B. D., & Kassman, K. T, In Press) examined whether mindfulness meditation could help improve participants' insight problem solving skills. Their hypothesis was that...
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Mindfulness and pain: new research review hints at unique mechanism for pain...
IntroductionEven though the effectiveness of mindfulness to reduce pain has been proven in numerous empirical studies its efficacy still remain unclear. Meaning that the effectiveness of mindfulness...
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Meditation, mindfulness, and executive control: results from a new EEG study
IntroductionIt's not really surprising that meditation might aid in executive control, since the act of meditation is basically an exercise in executive control. Take mindfulness, for example, I would...
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Further evidence that mindfulness meditation might bolster creativity
IntroductionI recently wrote an article about if mindfulness could aid in insight problem solving. The problem with the study, I referenced to in my article, was that it did not strictly investigate...
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Cognitive behavioral therapy outperformed psychodynamic therapy on all...
The dodo bird might be extinct in the real world but in the world of psychotherapy research it refuses to die. However, a group of German researchers recently put forward an article were they had...
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Are the Current Criteria for Empirically Supported Treatments Too Lenient?
The practice of classifying treatments as empirically supported (ESTs) has been widely debated for a long time. Recently Jessica Nasser published an article in the Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy...
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Some exploratory evidence that wait-list conditions may act as a nocebo in...
The double-blinded placebo-controlled randomized trial have long been held as the gold standard in pharmacological research. Unfortunately, this design is impossible to mimic in clinical psychology....
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