Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT03894930
Metta Meditation Training on Prosocial Behavior
Identifying Neural Correlates of Altruism
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 67 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Georgetown University · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years – 55 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
Summary
The purpose of the study is to look at the impact of a metta meditation training on prosocial behavior and socio-affective brain responses. The training involves an 8-week, online administration of guided metta meditation practices aimed at generating feelings of kindness and compassion for other people. The study examines how participants respond to thinking about familiar others and strangers using behavioral and brain-imaging measures. This study will be important for understanding how people develop the capacity to be prosocial towards other individuals, which is a key component of adaptive social behavior.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| BEHAVIORAL | Metta meditation | Administered 5 days per week for 8 weeks. |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2018-09-25
- Primary completion
- 2021-05-14
- Completion
- 2021-05-14
- First posted
- 2019-03-29
- Last updated
- 2021-06-16
Locations
1 site across 1 country: United States
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT03894930. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.