@article{ref1,
title="Mindfulness as a means of reducing aggressive behavior: dispositional and situational evidence",
journal="Aggressive behavior",
year="2008",
author="Heppner, Whitney L. and Kernis, Michael H. and Lakey, Chad E. and Campbell, W. Keith and Goldman, Brian M. and Davis, Patti J. and Cascio, Edward V.",
volume="34",
number="5",
pages="486-496",
abstract="Recent research and theory suggest that mindfulness, or enhanced attention and awareness in the present moment [Brown and Ryan, 2003], may be linked to lower levels of ego-involvement and, as a result, may have implications for lowering hostility and aggressive behavior. Accordingly, we conducted two studies to examine the potential aggression-mitigating role of mindfulness. In Study 1, we found that dispositional mindfulness correlated negatively with self-reported aggressiveness and hostile attribution bias. In Study 2, participants made mindful before receiving social rejection feedback displayed less-aggressive behavior than did rejected participants not made mindful. Discussion centers on potential mechanisms by which mindfulness operates to reduce aggressive behavior.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0096-140X",
doi="10.1002/ab.20258",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ab.20258"
}