The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Mindfulness (eBook)

Amanda Ie, Christelle T. Ngnoumen, Ellen J. Langer (Herausgeber)

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2014
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-29491-8 (ISBN)

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The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Mindfulness brings together the latest multi-disciplinary research on mindfulness from a group of international scholars, in a comprehensive  2-volume set

• Examines the origins and key theories of the two dominant Western approaches to mindfulness
• Compares, contrasts, and integrates insights from the social psychological and Eastern-derived perspectives
• Discusses the implications for mindfulness across a range of fields, including consciousness and cognition, education, creativity, leadership and organizational behavior, law, medical practice and therapy, well-being, and sports

Amanda Ie is a researcher in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University (PhD from Harvard University; BSc from Brown University). Her research interests include thought suppression, intrusive thought contents, mindfulness, and multitasking.

Christelle Ngnoumen is a doctoral student and researcher in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University (B.A. Brown University). Her research explores the mindlessness of stereotyping, implicit social cognition, and face perception.

Ellen Langer is Professor of Psychology at Harvard University and widely considered to be the “mother” of mindfulness. She is the recipient of four distinguished scientist awards, a Guggenheim Fellowship, among a host of other honors, and has authored over 200 research articles on mindfulness and topics such as perceived control, aging, learning, and decision-making. She is the author of 11 books, including Mindfulness (1990); The Power of Mindful Learning (1997); On Becoming an Artist: Reinventing Yourself Through Mindful Creativity (2007); and most recently, Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility (2009).

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The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Mindfulness brings together the latest multi-disciplinary research on mindfulness from a group of international scholars: Examines the origins and key theories of the two dominant Western approaches to mindfulness Compares, contrasts, and integrates insights from the social psychological and Eastern-derived perspectives Discusses the implications for mindfulness across a range of fields, including consciousness and cognition, education, creativity, leadership and organizational behavior, law, medical practice and therapy, well-being, and sports 2 Volumes

Inhalt

Notes on Editors ix

Notes on Contributors xi

General Introduction xxxi

Part I Origins and Theory 1

1 Mindfulness Forward and Back 7
Ellen J. Langer

2 Thriving With Uncertainty: Opening the Mind and Cultivating Inner Well-Being Through Contemplative and Creative Mindfulness 21
Daniel J. Siegel and Madeleine W. Siegel

3 Eastern and Western Approaches to Mindfulness: Similarities, Differences, and Clinical Implications 48
James Carmody

4 From Early Buddhist Traditions to Western Psychological Science 58
Andrew Olendzki

5 Mindfulness Meditation from the Eastern Inner Science Tradition 74
Carin Muhr and Lene Handberg

6 Exemplifying a Shift of Paradigm: Exploring the Psychology of Possibility and Embracing the Instability of Knowing 115
Sayyed Mohsen Fatemi

7 Art of Mindfulness: Integrating Eastern and Western Approaches 139
Maja Djikic

Part II Consciousness, Cognition, and Emotion 149

8 Mindfulness: An Antidote for Wandering Minds 153
Michael D. Mrazek, James M. Broadway, Dawa T. Phillips, Michael S. Franklin, Benjamin W. Mooneyham, and Jonathan W. Schooler

9 Mindfulness: Deautomatization of Cognitive and Emotional Life 168
Yoona Kang, June Gruber, and Jeremy R. Gray

10 Toward a Mindful-Unmindful Cognitive Style: Lessons from the Study of Field Dependence-Independence 186
Jack Demick

11 The Motivated and Mindful Perceiver: Relationships Among Motivated Perception, Mindfulness, and Self-Regulation 200
Emily Balcetis, Shana Cole, and Sana Sherali

12 Mindfulness, Interest-Taking, and Self-Regulation: A Self-Determination Theory Perspective on the Role of Awareness in Optimal Functioning 216
C. Scott Rigby, Patricia P. Schultz, and Richard M. Ryan

13 Mindful Mindlessness in Goal Pursuit 236
Ana P. Gantman, Peter M. Gollwitzer, and Gabriele Oettingen

14 Mindful Versus Mindless Thinking and Persuasion 258
Andrew Luttrell, Pablo Bri~nol, and Richard E. Petty

15 Mindfulness and Heuristics 279
Wray Herbert

16 I-D Compensation: Exploring the Relations Among Mindfulness, a Close Brush With Death, and Our Hunter-Gatherer Heritage 290
Leonard L. Martin, Matthew A. Sanders, Amey Kulkarni, Wyatt C. Anderson, and Whitney L. Heppner

17 Answering Questions: A Comparison of Survey Satisficing and Mindlessness 312
David L. Vannette and Jon A. Krosnick

18 The Impact of Mindfulness on Creativity Research and Creativity Enhancement 328
Shelley Carson

19 Mediating Mindful Social Interactions Through Design 345
Kristina Niedderer

20 On Being Mindful of Time 367
Stuart Albert

21 Mindfulness and the Neuroscience of Influence 387
Emily B. Falk

Part III Leadership and Organizational Behavior 405

22 Organizing for Mindfulness 407
Kathleen M. Sutcliffe and Timothy J. Vogus

23 Mindfulness and Organizational Defenses: Exploring Organizational and Institutional Challenges to Mindfulness 424
Silvia Jordan and Idar Alfred Johannessen

24 Mindful Leadership 443
James L. Ritchie-Dunham

25 Mindfulness at Work 458
Michael Pirson

26 Two (or More) Concepts of Mindfulness in Law and Conflict Resolution 471
Leonard L. Riskin

27 Mindfulness in Law 487
Scott L. Rogers

Rezensionen

"Overall, the Handbook is comprehensive, exhaustive, and designed to promote the "cultivation of thought to create flourishing and meaningful life" (p. 1,127). Who could ask for more?" PsycCritiques, July 2015

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Notes on Contributors

Susan Albers is a clinical psychologist at the Cleveland Clinic. She graduated from the University of Denver and did her predoctoral internship at the University of Notre Dame. Dr. Albers completed her post doctoral work at Stanford University. Dr. Albers has written six books on the topic of mindful eating including Eat.Q., Eating Mindfully, Eat, Drink & Be Mindful, Mindful Eating 101, 50 Ways to Soothe Yourself Without Food, and But I Deserve This Chocolate. Dr. Albers was awarded the University of Denver, Master Scholar Award. She conducts mindful eating workshops internationally (www.eatingmindfully.com).

Stuart Albert is an Associate Professor at the Curtis L. Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. from The Ohio State in social psychology, and has been a visiting scholar both at Harvard and MIT. His new book, entitled: WHEN: the Art of Perfect Timing (Jossey-Bass, 2013), summarizes 20 years of research into the question of when to act so as not to be too early or too late, as well as how to identify timing-related risks, an environment or context that changes overnight, for example.

Ronald A. Alexander, licensed psychotherapist, leadership consultant, clinical trainer, is the executive director of the Open Mind Training® Institute in Santa Monica. A pioneer in Somatic Psychotherapy, Holistic Psychology, Mindfulness, and Leadership Coaching, he was one of the early practitioners to apply Buddhist psychology and mindfulness to Western mental health. Alexander conducts professional and personal trainings nationally and internationally. He is a long time extension faculty member of UCLA. Alexander is the author of Wise Mind Open Mind: Finding Purpose and Meaning in Times of Crisis, Loss and Change (New Harbinger, 2009). www.openmindtraining.com (longer bio in Dropbox folder).

Wyatt C. Anderson is a doctoral student in Social Psychology at the University of Georgia. He is broadly interested in the perception of meaning in life and how people cope with uncertain experiences.

Diane B. Arnkoff is a faculty member in the Department of Psychology at The Catholic University of America. She was Director of Clinical Training for 10 years and is now Professor Emerita. Her research areas include anxiety in nonclinical populations. Recently, she and her colleagues have been studying how mindfulness and related constructs play a role in anxiety and how mindfulness may improve the outcomes in intervention programs for social anxiety and stress. She also researches psychotherapy from the perspective of psychotherapy integration, focusing on the treatment decisions made by eclectic and integrative therapists.

Emily Balcetis is an Assistant Professor of Social Psychology at New York University. Her research interests fall at the intersection of social and cognitive psychology. Specifically, she investigates what and how motivations influence visual perception, social judgment, and decision-making. She earned her Ph.D. in Social and Personality Psychology from Cornell University, where she held a Sage Fellowship and earned the Society of Experimental Social Psychology 2006 Dissertation Award for her research on motivated visual perception.

David Black is Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine. His research program centers on the delivery and evaluation of mind-body intervention modalities—specifically mindfulness training—to alleviate mental and physical symptoms associated with health and disease states. He is the author of more than 25 peer-reviewed publications, including articles in leading journals such as JAMA Pediatrics, Journal of Adolescent Health, Pediatrics, and Psychoneuroendocrinology. He is the Editor of Mindfulness Research Monthly (www.mindfulexperience.org), a web-based dissemination bulletin informing the latest advances in mindfulness research. His current objective is to delineate biophysiological mechanisms underlying integrative health interventions.

Pablo Briñol is Associate Professor of social psychology at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain), and visiting scholar at Ohio State University. His research interest focuses on the study of the psychological mechanisms underlying attitudes and persuasion, with emphasis on metacognitive processes and measures of change. Dr. Briñol has published several books in the domain of persuasion, and more than 100 publications. His research has appeared in top journals of the field, including Psychological Bulletin, Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Psychological Science.

James M. Broadway earned his Ph.D. in Psychology (Cognition and Brain Science) from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2012. His research interests include understanding how the brain performs attention, working memory, time perception, and other mental functions. He is working with Jonathan Schooler to investigate psychophysiological correlates of mind-wandering.

Lori A. Brotto has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and is an Associate Professor in the UBC Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, and Head of the Division of Gynaecologic Specialties, as well as a registered psychologist in Vancouver, Canada. She is the director of the UBC Sexual Health Laboratory where research primarily focuses on developing mindfulness-based interventions for women with sexual desire and arousal difficulties, and women with chronic genital pain. Other major lines of research include exploring sexuality and reproductive health in ethnic-minority women, studying the intracrinology of androgen metabolites in women's desire, asexuality, and sexuality after cancer. Dr. Brotto is the Associate Editor for Archives of Sexual Behavior and Sexual and Relationship Therapy, and has over 80 peer-reviewed publications.

LeeAnn Cardaciotto is Associate Professor of Psychology at La Salle University in Philadelphia, PA. Her research interests focus on the study of mindfulness and related constructs including self-compassion. Her work in this area began with the development of the Philadelphia Mindfulness Scale (PHLMS) to assess mindfulness as a bi-dimensional construct, and has continued to examine this model in a variety of contexts including social anxiety disorder. She also incorporates mindfulness- and acceptance-based approaches in her teaching of master's-level counseling students.

James Carmody is an Associate Professor of Medicine at University of Massachusetts Medical School. He is interested in the qualities of attending to experience that are associated with well-being, particularly those associated with mindfulness practice. His research is in the psychological and neural mechanisms of mind–body processes related to mindfulness practice, and he is PI on several NIH-funded mindfulness trials. Jim studied and practiced in Zen, Tibetan, Theravada, and Advaita traditions in a number of countries for 40 years. He leads courses for clinicians with the goal of making the conceptualization and experience of mindfulness straightforward, jargon-free, and accessible for patients. His work has been featured in numerous media including the New York Times and NPR.

Shelley Carson received her Ph.D. in psychology from Harvard University, where she continues to teach and conduct research in the areas of creativity, resilience, and psychopathology. Her work has been published widely in national and international scientific journals and featured on the Discovery Channel, CNN, and NPR. She has won multiple teaching awards for her popular course Creativity: Madmen, Geniuses, and Harvard Students. She is the author of the award-winning book Your Creative Brain: Seven Steps to Maximize Imagination, Productivity, and Innovation in Your Life (Jossey-Bass, 2010), and coauthor of Almost Depressed: Is My (or My Loved One's) Unhappiness a Problem? (Hazelden, 2013).

Jason Clower is Associate Professor of Comparative Religion and Asian Studies at California State University, Chico. He studies Buddhist and Confucian philosophy and Asian-inspired spiritual movements in California.

Shana Cole is a social psychology Ph.D. candidate at New York University. Her research broadly explores the ways in which visual perception informs, guides, and serves successful self-regulation. She studies this within a wide variety of domains, including health, culture, relationships, politics, and emotion regulation. Her dissertation work focuses on the role of visual perception in self-control conflicts, detailing visual biases that emerge as people struggle to remain committed to long-term goals in the face of temptation.

Alia Crum is an Adjunct Professor of Management and Postdoctoral Scholar at Columbia Business School. Dr. Crum received her Ph.D. from Yale University and B.A. degree from Harvard University. Her research examines the effect of mindsets—the lenses through which information is perceived, organized,...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.3.2014
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe
• Schlagworte: Clinical psychology • Klinische Psychologie • Psychologie • Psychology • Psychotherapie u. Beratung • Psychotherapy & Counseling • Social psychology, cognitive science, Eastern medicine, Western medicine, well-being, wellbeing, creativity, psychological science, Buddhism, deliberative mindset, motivation, self-regulation, personality, meditation, coaching, neuroscience, stress reduction, behavioral therapy, CBT, Jon Kabat-Zinn
• ISBN-10: 1-118-29491-2 / 1118294912
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-29491-8 / 9781118294918