Many people think that meditation can not only have an impact on stress and illness, but can also improve prosociality. But meditation and prosociality are multi-dimensional constructs: so what exactly are we talking about here?

Listen to my conversation with Dr Ute Kreplin at the School of Psychology, Massey University in New Zealand as we talk about her research examining this link, and how the way stadies are carried out can affect the sorts of results they report and how we need to be careful about how we interpret them.

---

Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sarb-johal/message

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit notestoselves.substack.com