Mindfulness Meditation May Not Increase False-Memory and May Instead Protect from False-Memory Susceptibility

Baranski, Michael F. S.; Was, Christopher A.

doi:10.1007/s12671-017-0729-7

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“…Thus, none of our hypotheses were supported; furthermore, neither were the previous findings by Wilson et al (2015 , Experiment 1) or Rosenstreich (2016 , Experiment 2), who found that mindfulness increased false memories. Instead, our findings are consistent with those of Baranski and Was (2017) , who also found no evidence for a difference in either true or false recall or recognition-memory performance between mindfulness and mind-wandering conditions in their first experiment or in false recall between the conditions in their second experiment, which included a join-the-dots condition. One explanation for the discrepant findings across the five experiments is that the brief inductions used (all 15 min in length, except for Rosenstreich’s Experiment 2, which was 30 min) were not sufficient to consistently induce the relevant state of mind to last throughout the subsequent tasks.…”

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“…To conclude, more research is needed into the best control condition to use for state-mindfulness research. Our results are consistent with those of Baranski and Was (2017) , showing no evidence for a difference in false-memory susceptibility among mindfulness, mind-wandering, and join-the-dots conditions. This suggests that it is too soon to say that “mindfulness plays havoc with memory” ( Knapton, 2015 ).…”

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“… Gilder and Heerey (2018) demonstrated the impact of a non-double-blind procedure on performance. It is unclear whether Wilson et al used such a procedure in their Experiment 1 (they did in Experiment 2), whether Baranski and Was (2017) or Rosenstreich (2016) did, and whether such variance in procedures had any impact.…”

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“…However, only 40 participants took part in this between-participants study, there was no baseline condition, and the effectiveness of the mindfulness manipulation was not measured. Baranski and Was (2017) explored the effects of 15-min mindfulness and mind-wandering manipulations and warning versus no-warning instructions on false memories. Following Wilson et al’s method in Experiment 2, Baranski and Was had participants in their second experiment (a) study six DRM lists, each followed by free recall; (b) receive the induction; and (c) then study six more lists with free recall.…”

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Exploring the Impact of Mindfulness on False-Memory Susceptibility

Sherman

Grange

2020

Psychol Sci

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Wilson, Mickes, Stolarz-Fantino, Evrard, and Fantino (2015) presented data from three well-powered experiments suggesting that a brief mindfulness induction can increase false-memory susceptibility. However, we had concerns about some of the methodology, including whether mind wandering is the best control condition for brief mindfulness inductions. Here, we report the findings from a preregistered double-blind randomized controlled trial designed to replicate and extend Wilson et al.’s findings. Participants ( N = 287) underwent 15-min mindfulness or mind-wandering inductions or completed a join-the-dots task before being presented with lists of words related to nonpresented critical lures. This was followed by free-recall and recognition tasks. There was no evidence for an effect of state of mind on correct or false recall or recognition. Furthermore, manipulation checks revealed that mindfulness and mind-wandering inductions activated overlapping states of mind. Exploratory analyses provided some support for mindfulness increasing false memory, but it appears that mind wandering may not be the right control for brief mindfulness research.

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Exploring the Impact of Mindfulness on False-Memory Susceptibility

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Grange

2020

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“…On the other hand, comparing mindfulness induction to a control group not receiving meditation instructions, Calvillo et al (2018) observed a positive effect of meditation on response bias (e.g., more conservative) when mindfulness induction took place after the encoding. Similarly to Baranski and Was (2017), Sherman and Grange (2020) did not observe any effect either on correct or false recognitions of a 15-min mindfulness meditation practice compared to a mind-wandering induction or a join-the-dots task taking place before the encoding. To explain these inconsistencies, Sherman and Grange (2020) suggest that mind-wandering might not be an optimal control condition, despite its widespread use in studies investigating the impact of a single mindfulness meditation session.…”

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Mindfulness and false memories: state and dispositional mindfulness does not increase false memories for naturalistic scenes presented in a virtual environment

Ayache

Abichou

Corte

et al. 2021

Psychological Research

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Mindfulness attracted increased research interests in the last decade, reporting an overall beneficial effect of this practice on cognitive performances. Nevertheless, recently a possible detrimental impact of mindfulness has been underlined. While the effect of mindfulness on memory remains under-explored, recent studies have observed an increased false-memory susceptibility after mindfulness practice. A possible explanatory mechanism has been suggested, related to the nature of the studied material. For semantically related information, mindfulness would increase false memories; however, the addition of rich perceptual information could prevent this detrimental effect. The present study aimed to verify this hypothesis by testing the impact of state mindfulness induced by a short meditation session, and dispositional mindfulness on the production of false memory for pictorial material presented in a complex virtual environment. We employed a virtual reality version of the Deese–Roediger–McDermott paradigm (DRM), a classical protocol to induce false memories. Contrary to previous studies, we did not observe any effect of mindfulness on false or correct memories (free recall and recognition) after a short mindfulness practice session compared to a control condition. Nonetheless, we found a beneficial effect of mindfulness practice on memory sensitivity. Additionally, we reported a positive and negative effect of dispositional mindfulness on memory outcomes. While the Non-Reactivity facet was associated with overall better memory performances, we observed an association between the Acting with Awareness facet and an increased recollection of lures. We discuss these findings in line with a recent proposal on the link between mindfulness and episodic memory.

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Sleep and mindfulness meditation as they relate to false memory

Konjedi

Maleeh

2018

Psychological Research

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Mindfulness Meditation May Not Increase False-Memory and May Instead Protect from False-Memory Susceptibility

Cited by 12 publications

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Exploring the Impact of Mindfulness on False-Memory Susceptibility

Exploring the Impact of Mindfulness on False-Memory Susceptibility

Mindfulness and false memories: state and dispositional mindfulness does not increase false memories for naturalistic scenes presented in a virtual environment

Sleep and mindfulness meditation as they relate to false memory

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