Mindfulness is not associated with dissonant attitudes but enhances the ability to cope with them
Mindfulness is not associated with dissonant attitudes but enhances the ability to cope with them
Explicit and implicit attitudes have been studied extensively, but there is less attention to reducing dissonance between them. This is relevant because this dissonance (IED) results in distress and has inconsistent effects on behavior, e.g. less physical activity but more smoking. Mindfulness decreases dissonance between selfrelated explicit and implicit constructs.