Mindfulness Reduces Information Avoidance

Elliott Ash, Daniel Sgroi, Anthony Tuckwell and Shi Zhuo
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Anthony Tuckwell: University of Warwick, ESRC CAGE Centre and Alan Turing Institute

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Abstract: Mindfulness meditation has been found to influence various important outcomes such as health, stress, depression, productivity, and altruism. We report evidence from a randomised controlled trial on a previously untested effect of mindfulness: information avoidance. We find that a relatively short mindfulness treatment (two weeks, 15 minutes a day) is able to induce a statistically significant reduction in information avoidance – that is, avoiding information that may cause worry or regret. Supplementary evidence supports mindfulness’s effects on emotion regulation as a possible mechanism for the effect.

Keywords: mindfulness; information avoidance; randomized controlled trial JEL Classification: D91; I31; C91 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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