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<p>Brief mindfulness-based meditation exerts a potent influence on social cognition. What is not yet understood, however, is whether and how it impacts an important facet of daily life—risk taking. Specifically, it is unclear the extent to which a single episode of mindfulness meditation shapes risk-taking behavior. Addressing this issue, here we examined the effects of mindfulness meditation on risk taking using two established experimental paradigms (i.e., Expt. 1: Balloon Analogue Risk Task; Expt. 2: Bomb Risk Elicitation Task), participants from different cultural milieus (i.e., Expt. 1: UK; Expt. 2: Singapore), and varied testing environments (i.e., Expt. 1: on-line; Expt. 2: in-person). A consistent pattern of results emerged across the experiments. Compared to both active and passive control conditions, brief mindfulness-based meditation increased risk-taking behavior. Of theoretical significance, additional computational analyses traced the origin of this effect to a reduction in loss aversion during decisional processing. The implications of these findings are considered.</p>

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Brief mindfulness meditation increases risk-taking behavior

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    2026年1月30日

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  • Lucy B. G. Tan,
  • Marius Golubickis,
  • C. Neil Macrae

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Brief mindfulness-based meditation exerts a potent influence on social cognition. What is not yet understood, however, is whether and how it impacts an important facet of daily life—risk taking. Specifically, it is unclear the extent to which a single episode of mindfulness meditation shapes risk-taking behavior. Addressing this issue, here we examined the effects of mindfulness meditation on risk taking using two established experimental paradigms (i.e., Expt. 1: Balloon Analogue Risk Task; Expt. 2: Bomb Risk Elicitation Task), participants from different cultural milieus (i.e., Expt. 1: UK; Expt. 2: Singapore), and varied testing environments (i.e., Expt. 1: on-line; Expt. 2: in-person). A consistent pattern of results emerged across the experiments. Compared to both active and passive control conditions, brief mindfulness-based meditation increased risk-taking behavior. Of theoretical significance, additional computational analyses traced the origin of this effect to a reduction in loss aversion during decisional processing. The implications of these findings are considered.