This study investigates the effects of two type of meditation – open presence and focused – on a meditator’s defensive response to a startle stimulus during the meditation.
Articles about science
- Self-centeredness and selflessness: A theory of self-based psychological functioning and its consequences for happiness, by Michaël Dambrun and Matthieu Ricard, Review of General Psychology 2011, Vol. 15, No. 2
- Measuring happiness: from fluctuating happiness to authenticdurable happiness, by Michaël Dambrun, Matthieu Ricard, et al, Frontiers in Personality Science and Individual Differences 2012
- Buddhist and psychological perspectives on emotions and well-being, by Paul Ekman, Richard J. Davidson, Matthieu Ricard, and B. Alan Wallace, Current Directions in Psychological Science 2005, 14(2)
- Long-term meditators self-induce high-amplitude gamma synchrony during mental practice, by Antoine Lutz, Matthieu Ricard, et al, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2004, 101(46)
- The Dalai Lama: Happiness through wisdom and compassion, by Matthieu Ricard, International Journal of Wellbeing, 1(2)
- Differential pattern of functional brain plasticity after compassion and empathy training