NCT03456505

Dissecting De-automatization

Dissecting De-automatization: The Effect of Mindfulness Training on Unconscious Habit Formation

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 53 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Utah · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The proposed study will assess the effects of mindfulness meditation training on an eye blink conditioning (EBC) task in a sample of novice meditators. This methodology will allow investigation of whether mindfulness interrupts classical conditioning through the process of de-automatization. Implicit learning rates, as reflective of unconscious habit formation and measured by the frequency of conditioned responses during the EBC, will be a main outcome of interest. The proposed study will also assess the effects of mindfulness meditation training on an emotion regulation (ER) task, with a specific focus on reappraisal of negative images and savoring of positive images.

Conditions

• Mindfulness

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Mindfulness Meditation Training	A researcher will guide participants through 5 mindfulness meditations, each lasting 11 minutes in length.
BEHAVIORAL	Active Listening	A researcher will read participants 5 selections from The Natural History of Selborne, each lasting 11 minutes in length.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-08-15
• Primary completion: 2018-06-01
• Completion: 2018-07-01
• First posted: 2018-03-07
• Last updated: 2018-10-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States