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Temporal effects of meditation and personality.

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This article is published in Psychological Studies.The article was published on 1998-11-01 and is currently open access. It has received 12 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Meditation & Personality.

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The psychological effects of meditation: a meta-analysis.

TL;DR: It is concluded that to arrive at a comprehensive understanding of why and how meditation works, emphasis should be placed on the development of more precise theories and measurement devices.
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An analysis of recent meditation research and suggestions for future directions

TL;DR: A review of recent meditation research can be found in this article, emphasizing the necessity to continue to expand the paradigm from a predominantly reductionistic, biomedical model to one which includes subjective and transpersonal domains and an integral perspective.

Effect of Vedic chanting on memory and sustained attention

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of traditional Vedic chanting on memory and sustained attention was compared with non-chanting practitioners, who had no exposure to such type of chanting, using non-parametric Mann Whitney U test and showed significant increased scorings in both the memory tests and considerable reduction in total error and total time taken for cancellation tests.
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Os efeitos da meditação à luz da investigação científica em Psicologia: revisão de literatura

TL;DR: Meditation, described as a practice of body and mind self-regulation, is characterized by a set of techniques that train the focalization of attention Also known as a mental training, this practice characterizes a technique capable of producing psychosomatic effects as mentioned in this paper.
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Impact of long-term meditation practice on cardiovascular reactivity during perception and reappraisal of affective images.

TL;DR: Both meditator and controls showed comparable cardiovascular reactivity during perception of positive stimuli, whereas up-regulating of positive affect was associated with more pronounced cardiac activation in meditators.