title: Loving-kindness brings loving-kindness: the impact of Buddhism on cognitive self-other integration.
abstract: Common wisdom has it that Buddhism enhances compassion and self-other integration. We put this assumption to empirical test by comparing practicing Taiwanese Buddhists with well-matched atheists. Buddhists showed more evidence of self-other integration in the social Simon task, which assesses the degree to which people co-represent the actions of a coactor. This suggests that self-other integration and task co-representation vary as a function of religious practice.
authors.affiliation: Cognitive Psychology Unit & Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands. colzato@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
authors.forename: Lorenza S
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Colzato
authors.forename: Hilmar
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zech
authors.forename: Bernhard
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Hommel
authors.forename: Rinus
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Verdonschot
authors.forename: Wery P M
authors.initials: WP
authors.lastname: van den Wildenberg
authors.forename: Shulan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hsieh
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002016:Buddhism / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D012649:Self Concept; D012938:Social Perception; D013624:Taiwan / Q000208:ethnology; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D055815:Young Adult