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Mindfulness in Motion (MIM): An Onsite Mindfulness Based Intervention (MBI) for Chronically High Stress Work Environments to Increase Resiliency and Work Engagement
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2015
The Mindfulness in Motion (MIM) protocol offers a pragmatic Mindfulness Based Intervention (MBI) on-site, for persons working in chronically high-stress work environments that significantly increases resiliency and work engagement. The protocol has proven feasible, beneficial, and is easily adaptable to other high-stress workplaces.
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Heart and Mind Share Metrics
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2024
Understanding how consumers feel and think about a brand is essential for its success. Emotional responses, like the connection a customer feels to a favorite clothing brand, can drive loyalty and long-term engagement. On the other hand, cognitive responses, such as recognizing the specific benefits of a particular insurance policy, help reinforce trust and informed decision-making. For example, awareness measures how many people recognize a brand, such as a new snack brand gaining popularity...
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Using Wavelet Entropy to Demonstrate how Mindfulness Practice Increases Coordination between Irregular Cerebral and Cardiac Activities
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2017
This manuscript describes how to use the wavelet entropy index to analyze high-density electroencephalography (EEG) and electrocardiography (ECG) data. We show that the irregularity of cerebral and cardiac activities became more coordinated during mindfulness-based stress reduction practice.
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Combining Behavior and EEG to Study the Effects of Mindfulness Meditation on Episodic Memory
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2020
Here we present a protocol for combining mindfulness meditation training, an episodic memory task, and EEG to understand the behavioral and neural effects of mindfulness meditation on episodic memory.
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Effects of Mindfulness Training Combined with Tai Chi in Patients with Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy
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2023
When studying exercise for treating diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN), achieving mind-body exercise is essential. This study proposes a protocol for mindfulness training combined with Tai Chi to achieve mind-body exercise.
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Similarity can act as a basis for affiliation through homophily, the tendency for people with comparable beliefs, values, interests, or goals to connect. In like-minded groups, this process helps explain why relationships and communities may form around shared orientations. Its importance lies in linking individual preferences to broader patterns of group formation.
Social identity connects a person’s sense of self with membership in a group, while normative influence encourages behavior that fits shared expectations. Together, these processes can strengthen belonging and make group standards more influential. Members may therefore align their attitudes or actions with the group, reinforcing cohesion and maintaining common expectations over time.
Repeated agreement can move group opinions toward more extreme positions, a process known as group polarization. When members consistently encounter confirmation of an existing view, their collective judgment may shift beyond the starting position. This mechanism matters because discussion within a like-minded group can intensify attitudes rather than simply preserve moderate agreement.
Researchers can use these groups to examine affiliation, conformity, cooperation, identity development, and decision-making. These outcomes show how shared beliefs or goals may shape both interpersonal behavior and collective judgments. Studying several outcomes together helps connect group membership with changes in belonging, coordination, social influence, and the way people reach decisions.
Psychologists study like-minded groups in friendships, online communities, support networks, and organizations. These settings provide different contexts for examining how shared orientations influence relationships, belonging, cooperation, and decisions. Comparing them broadens the analysis beyond one type of group and shows how similar psychological processes can operate across social and organized environments.
Shared orientation can support social support by giving members a sense of belonging and connection. The same similarity, however, may contribute to echo chambers, in which repeated agreement limits exposure to differing views, and may intensify intergroup conflict. Examining both outcomes helps psychology assess when affiliation promotes cooperation and when it increases social division.