Objectives: Training in mindfulness has been found to have practical benefits for a range of interpersonal outcomes including prosocial action and emotion. Recently, theory has posited that mindfulness and contemplative trainings that include mindfulness practices may enhance intergroup compassion. Method: Here, we conduct a selective narrative review, drawing on the Buddhist concept skillful means to ask if mindful attention deployment presents an optimal starting point for intergroup compassion and action.Results: We report an interdisciplinary theoretical framework suggesting that mindfulness dismantles common intrapsychic challenges to intergroup prosociality. We describe empirical research on the effects of experimentally manipulated mindfulness in intergroup contexts. Specifically, mindfulness promotes basic social cognitive processes that allow intergroup prosociality to flourish.Conclusions: While this research is promising, we note that research to date has been limited to individual-level outgrowths of mindfulness practice. Discussion focuses on skillful means that might “bring out the best” in mindfulness training for the promotion of intergroup prosociality on a larger scale – that is, the societal level. We present big questions for the future of mindfulness research in intergroup prosociality and call for an integrative approach situating mindfulness within social psychological interventions to enhance intergroup compassion
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