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标题：Buddha as an eye opener: A link between prosocial attitude and attentional control
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作者：Colzato, Lorenza S ; Hommel, Bernhard ; Van Den Wildenberg, Wery 等
期刊名称：Frontiers in Psychology
电子版ISSN：1664-1078
出版年度：2010
卷号：1
页码：1-5
DOI：10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00156
出版社：Frontiers Media
摘要：Increasing evidence suggests that religious practice induces systematic biases in attentional control. We used Navon’s global-local task to compare attentional bias in Taiwanese Buddhists and Taiwanese atheists; two groups brought up in the same country and culture and matched with respect to race, intelligence, sex, and age. Given the Buddhist emphasis on compassion for the physical and social environment, we expected a more global bias in Buddhist than in Atheist participants. In line with these expectations, Buddhists showed a larger global-precedence effect and increased interference from global distracters when processing local information. This pattern reinforces the idea that people's attentional processing style reflects biases rewarded by their religious beliefs.
关键词：Attention; Buddhism; global precedence