Mindfulness reduces information avoidance

Elliott Ash, Daniel Sgroi, Anthony Tuckwell and Shi Zhuo

Economics Letters, 2023, vol. 224, issue C

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 min a day) is able to induce a 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; Randomised controlled trial (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C91 D91 I31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2023.110997

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