An analysis of recent meditation research and suggestions for future directions

By S. Shapiro, R. Walsh. 2003

133 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Complementary and alternative medicine

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In Applied Psychology

1. Kirk Warren Brown
2. Richard M. Ryan
3. J. Carmody
4. S. Shapiro
5. J. Jacob
6. Emily Jovic
7. M. Brinkerhoff
8. J. Williams

In Clinical Psychology

1. Kirk Warren Brown
2. S. Shapiro
3. Richard M. Ryan
4. Ruth A. Baer
5. J. Carmody
6. S. Lynn
7. J. Jacob
8. Emily Jovic

In Complementary and alternative medicine

1. Kirk Warren Brown
2. S. Shapiro
3. Richard M. Ryan
4. J. Kabat‐Zinn
5. J. Williams
6. Benedict Freedman
7. J. Carmody
8. S. Lynn

Citations in the corpus

• Perils and Promise in Defining and Measuring Mindfulness: Observations From Experience (2006, background): “This points, more generally, to the importance of showing that a new measure has predictive value, particularly, we believe, for outcomes such as mental health, equanimity, compassion, generosity, wisdom, and other human potentialities that have traditionally been associated with mindfulness and med”
• Acceptance: An Historical and Conceptual Review (2010, background): “Meta-analyses (e.g., Baer, 2003) and qualitative research reviews (e.g., Shapiro & Walsh, 2003) have documented the promise of acceptance and mindfulness techniques across many indices of psychological functioning.”
• Mental balance and well-being: building bridges between Buddhism and Western psychology. (2006, background): “There are numerous promising avenues for future research in developing a partnership between modern science and Buddhism (S. L. Shapiro & Walsh, 2003; Walsh & Shapiro, 2006).”
• Personal and Planetary Well-being: Mindfulness Meditation, Pro-environmental Behavior and Personal Quality of Life in a Survey from the Social Justice and Ecological Sustainability Movement (2009, background): “In terms of its relationship to personal QoL, mindfulness as formal meditation is part of an increasingly robust line of research ( Shapiro et al. 2003 ), for both physical well-being as well as SWB.”
• The meeting of meditative disciplines and Western psychology: a mutually enriching dialogue. (2006, unknown): “For general reviews of research, see Andresen, 2000; Kristeller, in press; Murphy & Donovan, 1997; D. H. Shapiro & Walsh, 1984; S. Shapiro & Walsh, 2003.)”
• Self-Centeredness and Selflessness: A Theory of Self-Based Psychological Functioning and Its Consequences for Happiness (2011, unknown): “…& Davidson, 2007; Davidson et al., 2003; Ekman et al., 2005; Kabat-Zinn, 2003; Lutz, Greischar, Rawlings, Ricard, & Davidson, 2004; Lutz, Lachaux, Martinière, & Varela, 2002; Lutz, Slagter, Rawling, Francis, Greishar, & Davidson, 2009; Rosch, 1999; Shapiro & Walsh, 2003; Walsh & Shapiro, 2006).”
• Meditation states and traits: EEG, ERP, and neuroimaging studies. (2006, unknown): “…assays, pain, and stress-related skin disorders (Beauchamp-Turner & Levinson, 1992; Carlson et al., 2003, 2004; R. J. Davidson et al., 2003; Kabat-Zinn, 1982, 2003; Kabat-Zinn, Lipworth, & Burney, 1985; Kabat-Zinn et al., 1998; J. J. Miller, Fletcher, & Kabat-Zinn, 1995; Shapiro & Walsh, 2003).”
• Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction in Massachusetts Correctional Facilities (2007, background): “…cultivated through formal training in mindfulness meditation, and the resultant stable, nonreactive awareness appears to act as a resource for more creative responding by bringing mental processes into greater conscious awareness and under greater voluntary control (Shapiro & Walsh, 2002).”