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Springer, Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 3(19), p. 541-545, 2012

DOI: 10.3758/s13423-012-0241-y

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Loving-kindness brings loving-kindness: The impact of Buddhism on cognitive self-other integration

Journal article published in 2012 by Lorenza S. Colzato, Hilmar Zech, Bernhard Hommel ORCID, Rinus Verdonschot, Wery P. M. van den Wildenberg, Shulan Hsieh
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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.