Ethics and Meditation: A New Educational Combination to Boost Verbal Creativity and Sense of Responsibility
Both creativity and responsibility are important higher-order skills to develop to meet the challenges of the Anthropocene, and both are related to attentional states of consciousness and to ethics. Meditation is a set of practices that trains attentional and emotional regulation. A few studies have...
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| description | Both creativity and responsibility are important higher-order skills to develop to meet the challenges of the Anthropocene, and both are related to attentional states of consciousness and to ethics. Meditation is a set of practices that trains attentional and emotional regulation. A few studies have shown that different kinds of meditation can foster different kinds of creative thinking, and others have begun to investigate the effect of the combination of meditation and ethics on ethical characteristics (but not yet on creativity or precisely on responsibility, so far). Here, we present a nonrandomized trial with an active control group among second-year science university students (n = 84) to test the effect of the secular Meditation-Based Ethics of Responsibility (MBER) program on creative potential, self-reported awareness, and sense of one’s own responsibility. The results show a large effect of the program on sense of one’s own responsibility and convergent and divergent creative writing tasks, both in conceptual–semantic and engineering-like verbal ideation. They also suggest that convergent conceptual–semantic thinking might moderate the effect of the MBER program on the awareness and sense of one’s own responsibility. This work opens up new research and educational perspectives linked to necessary behavioral changes in the Anthropocene. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7736127d8ca942aa864e822a8fcc91782023-11-19T01:43:48ZengMDPI AGJournal of Intelligence2079-32002023-08-0111815510.3390/jintelligence11080155Ethics and Meditation: A New Educational Combination to Boost Verbal Creativity and Sense of ResponsibilityHélène Hagège0Mohammed El Ourmi1Rebecca Shankland2France Arboix-Calas3Christophe Leys4Todd Lubart5FrED, Université de Limoges, UR 20199, 87000 Limoges, FranceFrED, Université de Limoges, UR 20199, 87000 Limoges, FranceLaboratoire DIPHE, Université Lumière Lyon 2, CEDEX 07, 69365 Lyon, FranceLIRDEF, Université de Montpellier, 34000 Montpellier, FranceCRPSI, Université libre de Bruxelles, 1050 Bruxelles, BelgiumLaPEA, Université Paris Cité & Univ Gustave Eiffel, 92774 Boulogne Billancourt, FranceBoth creativity and responsibility are important higher-order skills to develop to meet the challenges of the Anthropocene, and both are related to attentional states of consciousness and to ethics. Meditation is a set of practices that trains attentional and emotional regulation. A few studies have shown that different kinds of meditation can foster different kinds of creative thinking, and others have begun to investigate the effect of the combination of meditation and ethics on ethical characteristics (but not yet on creativity or precisely on responsibility, so far). Here, we present a nonrandomized trial with an active control group among second-year science university students (n = 84) to test the effect of the secular Meditation-Based Ethics of Responsibility (MBER) program on creative potential, self-reported awareness, and sense of one’s own responsibility. The results show a large effect of the program on sense of one’s own responsibility and convergent and divergent creative writing tasks, both in conceptual–semantic and engineering-like verbal ideation. They also suggest that convergent conceptual–semantic thinking might moderate the effect of the MBER program on the awareness and sense of one’s own responsibility. This work opens up new research and educational perspectives linked to necessary behavioral changes in the Anthropocene.https://www.mdpi.com/2079-3200/11/8/155responsibilityeducationmeditationmindfulnesscreativityethics |
| spellingShingle | Hélène Hagège Mohammed El Ourmi Rebecca Shankland France Arboix-Calas Christophe Leys Todd Lubart Ethics and Meditation: A New Educational Combination to Boost Verbal Creativity and Sense of Responsibility Journal of Intelligence responsibility education meditation mindfulness creativity ethics |
| title | Ethics and Meditation: A New Educational Combination to Boost Verbal Creativity and Sense of Responsibility |
| title_full | Ethics and Meditation: A New Educational Combination to Boost Verbal Creativity and Sense of Responsibility |
| title_fullStr | Ethics and Meditation: A New Educational Combination to Boost Verbal Creativity and Sense of Responsibility |
| title_full_unstemmed | Ethics and Meditation: A New Educational Combination to Boost Verbal Creativity and Sense of Responsibility |
| title_short | Ethics and Meditation: A New Educational Combination to Boost Verbal Creativity and Sense of Responsibility |
| title_sort | ethics and meditation a new educational combination to boost verbal creativity and sense of responsibility |
| topic | responsibility education meditation mindfulness creativity ethics |
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