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%T Pulling your self together: meditation promotes congruence between implicit and explicit self-esteem %A Koole, Sander L. %A Govorun, Olesya %A Cheng, Clara Michelle %A Gallucci, Marcello %J Journal of Experimental Social Psychology %N 6 %P 1220-1226 %V 45 %D 2009 %K (implicit) self-esteem; name letter preference; mindfulness %= 2012-06-08T08:21:00Z %~ http://www.peerproject.eu/ %> https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-309733 %X Self-reported or explicit self-esteem frequently conflicts with indirectly assessed, implicit self-esteem. The present research investigated whether meditation may reduce such inner conflicts by promoting congruence between implicit and explicit self-esteem. Relative to control conditions, meditation led to greater congruence between explicit self-esteem, assessed via self-report, and implicit self-esteem, indicated by name letter preference (Studies 1 and 2). Low implicit self-esteem was further associated with a slow-down of explicit self-evaluation (Study 2), an effect that mediated the greater congruence between implicit and explicit self-esteem in the meditation condition. These results suggest that meditation encourages people to rely more on intuitive feelings of self-worth. %G en %9 journal article %W GESIS - http://www.gesis.org %~ SSOAR - http://www.ssoar.info