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Metta Meditation Training on Prosocial Behavior

NCT03894930 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 67

Last updated 2021-06-16

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of the study is to look at the impact of a metta meditation training on prosocial behavior and socio-affective brain responses. The training involves an 8-week, online administration of guided metta meditation practices aimed at generating feelings of kindness and compassion for other people. The study examines how participants respond to thinking about familiar others and strangers using behavioral and brain-imaging measures. This study will be important for understanding how people develop the capacity to be prosocial towards other individuals, which is a key component of adaptive social behavior.

Conditions

  • Social Behavior

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Metta meditation

Administered 5 days per week for 8 weeks.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Georgetown University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Abigail A Marsh, PhD · Georgetown University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
55 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-09-25
Primary Completion
2021-05-14
Completion
2021-05-14

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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