“…Our research contributes to the cumulative theoretical knowledge in psychology by demonstrating a rare negative consequence of mindfulness, which to date has been repeatedly shown and theorized to have positive consequences. The current literature includes several thousand articles on positive consequences of mindfulness (for reviews, see Creswell, 2017; Glomb et al, 2011; Good et al, 2016; Karelaia & Reb, 2015; Sutcliffe et al, 2016) but far fewer demonstrating negative consequences of mindfulness (Grapendorf et al, 2017; Hafenbrack & Vohs, 2018; Schindler et al, 2019). There is theoretical value in considering when a construct that is widely lauded or reviled can have effects of the opposite valence (e.g., Galinsky et al, 2006; Lu et al, 2017; Pillemer & Rothbard, 2018; Vohs et al, 2012).…”