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To compare how two distinct meditation techniques—focused attention and open monitoring—differentially regulate the sensory intensity and emotional unpleasantness of thermal pain.

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Differential effects on pain intensity and unpleasantness of two meditation practices.

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To compare how two distinct meditation techniques—focused attention and open monitoring—differentially regulate the sensory intensity and emotional unpleasantness of thermal pain.
Assessed behavioral responses to noxious thermal stimuli in novice participants versus long-term meditators (LTMs).
Compared two meditation modalities: focused attention directed away from the stimulus, and open monitoring involving nonreactive, nonjudgmental awareness.
Measured self-reported pain intensity and pain unpleasantness across both meditation conditions.
Long-term meditators exhibited a statistically significant reduction in self-reported pain unpleasantness during open monitoring compared to novices.
Open monitoring did not produce a significant change in self-reported pain intensity among long-term meditators.
Focused attention meditation yielded no statistically significant differences in pain intensity or unpleasantness between long-term practitioners and novices.

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Comparative study demonstrates reduced pain unpleasantness in experienced meditators during open monitoring, suggesting distinct cognitive regulation pathways.

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Perlman et al. (2010) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a1a74627ff99bba0645b1f2 https://doi.org/10.1037/a0018440

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Comparative study demonstrates reduced pain unpleasantness in experienced meditators during open monitoring, suggesting distinct cognitive regulation pathways.

Differential effects on pain intensity and unpleasantness of two meditation practices.

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Differential effects on pain intensity and unpleasantness of two meditation practices.

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