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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Social psychology

Background:

  • Mindfulness is often linked to improved inhibitory control, the ability to stop unwanted behaviors.
  • However, the effectiveness of mindfulness may vary depending on the specific context.
  • The influence of social reward cues on this relationship remains under-explored.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between dispositional mindfulness and inhibitory control.
  • To examine the moderating role of a social reward context (attractive faces) on this relationship.
  • To explore whether mindfulness affects the perception of attractiveness.

Main Methods:

  • Fifty participants (ages 18-43) completed mindfulness questionnaires and a Go/No-go task.
  • The task included neutral and attractive face conditions.
  • Inhibitory performance and perceived attractiveness were measured.

Main Results:

  • Inhibitory control was impaired when participants viewed attractive faces compared to neutral stimuli.
  • Dispositional mindfulness negatively correlated with inhibitory performance specifically in the attractive faces condition.
  • Higher mindfulness was associated with lower perceived attractiveness, but this did not explain the impaired inhibitory control.

Conclusions:

  • Mindfulness can challenge inhibitory control in the presence of attractive faces.
  • Mindfulness interventions targeting inhibitory control may be less effective in social reward contexts.
  • Further research is needed to determine if these findings generalize to other reward contexts.