Study: Immediate Rewards Affect Mindful People Much Less

People aware of their own thoughts and emotions are less affected by others' positive feedback, reveals a new study.

University of Toronto Scarborough PhD candidate Rimma Teper said that the study findings suggest that mindful individuals may be less affected by immediate rewards and fits well with the idea that mindful individuals are typically less impulsive.

Negative Emotions Affect Old and Young Differently
Negative emotions such as the fear of losing money affects young and old people differently, suggests a new study based on brain scans

Using electroencephalography (EEG) the brain activity of participants was recorded while they completed a reaction time task on a computer.

The authors were interested in participants' brain activity in response to receiving performance feedback that was rewarding, neutral or negative in nature.

Not only were mindful individuals less responsive to rewarding feedback compared to others, they also showed less difference in their neural response to neutral versus rewarding feedback.

Apes Regulate Their Emotions Just Like Humans
Apes regulate their emotions in a human-like way, suggests a new study.

The findings also reflect further clinical research that supports the notion of accepting one's emotions is an important indicator of mental well-being.

The research was published this week in the journal Emotion.

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Researchers Reveal New Theory of Emotions
Emotions are not just special cases of perception or thought but a separate kind of mental state which arises through the integration of feelings of bodily processes and cognitive contents.

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Readers of Literary Fiction can Read Emotions, too
Literary fiction readers are better than figuring out the emotions of others than those who read popular fiction and nonfiction, a new study revealed