Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) have entered mainstream Western culture in the
past four decades. There are now dozens of MBIs with varying degrees of empirical support …

As the COVID-19 global health disaster continues to unfold across the world, calls have
been made to address the associated mental illness public crisis. The current paper seeks to …

Highlights•Certain positive emotions arise from and create religious and spiritual
experiences.•Worship, prayer, and meditation generate positive emotions such as awe or …

Mindfulness and motivation are both highly researched topics of great consequence for
individual and social wellness. Using the lens of self-determination theory, we review …

Pleasantness and meaningfulness are sometimes seen as opposing pursuits. Yet past
research has found that the pursuit of meaning often leads to pleasure. In four longitudinal …

Background There is concern that increasing demand for student mental health services
reflects deteriorating student well-being. We designed a pragmatic, parallel, single-blinded …

Engaging in contemplative practice like meditation, yoga, and prayer, is beneficial for
psychological and physical well-being. Recent research has identified several underlying …

Background The benefits of mindfulness interventions are well‐known, but their challenges
and individual differences in reactions to these challenges are much less clear. Methods …

Despite growing popularity, associations between dosage and outcomes in meditation-app
interventions have not been established. We examined this relationship using a range of …

Meditation apps are the most commonly used mental health apps. However, the optimal
dosing of app-delivered meditation practice has not been established. We examined …