title: Mindfulness reduces the correspondence bias.
abstract: The correspondence bias (CB) refers to the idea that people sometimes give undue weight to dispositional rather than situational factors when explaining behaviours and attitudes. Three experiments examined whether mindfulness, a non-judgmental focus on the present moment, could reduce the CB. Participants engaged in a brief mindfulness exercise (the raisin task), a control task, or an attention to detail task before completing a typical CB measure involving an attitude-attribution paradigm. The results indicated that participants in the mindfulness condition experienced a significant reduction in the CB compared to participants in the control or attention to detail conditions. These results suggest that mindfulness training can play a unique role in reducing social biases related to person perception.
authors.affiliation: a School of Psychology , University of Kent , Canterbury , UK.
authors.forename: Tim
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hopthrow
authors.affiliation: b Department of Health and Social Sciences , University of the West of England , Bristol , UK.
authors.forename: Nic
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Hooper
authors.affiliation: a School of Psychology , University of Kent , Canterbury , UK.
authors.forename: Lynsey
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Mahmood
authors.affiliation: c Department of Psychology , Gettysburg College , Gettysburg , PA , USA.
authors.forename: Brian P
authors.initials: BP
authors.lastname: Meier
authors.affiliation: d Department of Psychology and Psychotherapy , University of Witten/Herdecke , Witten , Germany.
authors.forename: Ulrich
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Weger
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D001290:Attitude; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment; D008297:Male; D064866:Mindfulness; D055848:Nuclear Power Plants; D011287:Prejudice; D011582:Psychological Theory; D011593:Psychology, Social; D012938:Social Perception; D013334:Students; D014495:Universities; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Correspondence bias; Fundamental attribution error; Mindfulness