Mark R. Dixon, Dana Paliliunas, Jordan Belisle, Ryan C. Speelman, Karl F. Gunnarsson and Jordan L. Shaffer (2019), “The effect of brief mindfulness training on momentary impulsivity”, Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science 11: 15–20 — doi:10.1016/j.jcbs.2018.11.003
Key takeaways
From the abstract as summarised on the institutional repository’s record page; the paper is unread.
- Design. Twenty-three participants were randomised to a 5-minute mindful-breathing video (n = 11) or a contemporary music video of similar length (n = 12). A monetary delay-discounting questionnaire was given before and after.
- Result. Impulsive responding decreased in the mindfulness group, and the control group showed no significant change.
- Why the record wants it. If mindfulness changes the discount curve itself, it re-synchronizes the interests’ valuations, which is the flow route rather than the suspension route CLAIM-156 proposes. This is evidence for the rival reading, at n = 23, and is filed as such.
Standing in the record
Filed on 2026-10-11. psychopathology-and-treatment comes first because it is a brief psychological intervention study from the ACT/contextual-behavioural tradition; motivation is for impulsivity and intertemporal choice; learning-and-conditioning is for delay discounting as behavioural analysis measures it. Not held in the anthology.