Lessons from the ReSource project: Training attention, compassion and 
perspective taking

Singer, Tania

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Lessons from the ReSource project: Training attention, compassion and perspective taking

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Singer, Tania
Department Social Neuroscience, MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Max Planck Society;

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Singer, T. (2015). Lessons from the ReSource project: Training attention, compassion and perspective taking. Talk presented at International Convention for Psychological Science (ICPS). Amsterdam, the Netherlands. 2015-03-12 - 2015-03-14.

Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0004-0353-B

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I will present a large-scale multi-method and interdisciplinary one-year mental training study , the ReSource project, that aims at cultivating mental capacities such as attention, mindfulness, compassion, meta-cognition and perspective taking on self and others. More than 90 measures including behavioral-, functional- and structural brain-, autonomic- , subjective and hormonal measures were assessed in more than 200 subjects who underwent a sequence of 3 different 3-month modules focusing on a) mindfulness, body awareness and attention (Presence), b) compassion, emotion-regulation and prosocial motivation (Affect) and c) meta-cognition and perspective taking (Perspective). First results will be presented suggesting training-module specific plasticity on measures of a) daily subjective experience including mind-wandering and content of thought, b) structural brain plasticity, c) perspective taking, d) compassion, e) decision making and f) attention.