Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Mindfulness

Amanda Ie is a researcher in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University (PhD from Harvard University; BSc from Brown University). Her research interests include thought suppression, intrusive thought contents, mindfulness, and multitasking. Christelle Ngnoumen is a doctoral student and researcher in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University (B.A. Brown University). Her research explores the mindlessness of stereotyping, implicit social cognition, and face perception. Ellen Langer is Professor of Psychology at Harvard University and widely considered to be the mother of mindfulness. She is the recipient of four distinguished scientist awards, a Guggenheim Fellowship, among a host of other honors, and has authored over 200 research articles on mindfulness and topics such as perceived control, aging, learning, and decision-making. She is the author of 11 books, including Mindfulness (1990); The Power of Mindful Learning (1997); On Becoming an Artist: Reinventing Yourself Through Mindful Creativity (2007); and most recently, Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility (2009).

Overall, the Handbook is comprehensive, exhaustive, and designed to promote the cultivation of thought to create flourishing and meaningful life (p. 1,127). Who could ask for more? PsycCritiques, July 2015

• Notes on Editors ix Notes on Contributors xi General Introduction xxxi Part I Origins and Theory 1 1 Mindfulness Forward and Back 7 Ellen J. Langer 2 Thriving With Uncertainty: Opening the Mind and Cultivating Inner Well-Being Through Contemplative and Creative Mindfulness 21 Daniel J. Siegel and Madeleine W. Siegel 3 Eastern and Western Approaches to Mindfulness: Similarities, Differences, and Clinical Implications 48 James Carmody 4 From Early Buddhist Traditions to Western Psychological Science 58 Andrew Olendzki 5 Mindfulness Meditation from the Eastern Inner Science Tradition 74 Carin Muhr and Lene Handberg 6 Exemplifying a Shift of Paradigm: Exploring the Psychology of Possibility and Embracing the Instability of Knowing 115 Sayyed Mohsen Fatemi 7 Art of Mindfulness: Integrating Eastern and Western Approaches 139 Maja Djikic Part II Consciousness, Cognition, and Emotion 149 8 Mindfulness: An Antidote for Wandering Minds 153 Michael D. Mrazek, James M. Broadway, Dawa T. Phillips, Michael S. Franklin, Benjamin W. Mooneyham, and Jonathan W. Schooler 9 Mindfulness: Deautomatization of Cognitive and Emotional Life 168 Yoona Kang, June Gruber, and Jeremy R. Gray 10 Toward a Mindful Unmindful Cognitive Style: Lessons from the Study of Field Dependence Independence 186 Jack Demick 11 The Motivated and Mindful Perceiver: Relationships Among Motivated Perception, Mindfulness, and Self-Regulation 200 Emily Balcetis, Shana Cole, and Sana Sherali 12 Mindfulness, Interest-Taking, and Self-Regulation: A Self-Determination Theory Perspective on the Role of Awareness in Optimal Functioning 216 C. Scott Rigby, Patricia P. Schultz, and Richard M. Ryan 13 Mindful Mindlessness in Goal Pursuit 236 Ana P. Gantman, Peter M. Gollwitzer, and Gabriele Oettingen 14 Mindful Versus Mindless Thinking and Persuasion 258 Andrew Luttrell, Pablo Bri nol, and Richard E. Petty 15 Mindfulness and Heuristics 279 Wray Herbert 16 I-D Compensation: Exploring the Relations Among Mindfulness, a Close Brush With Death, and Our Hunter-Gatherer Heritage 290 Leonard L. Martin, Matthew A. Sanders, Amey Kulkarni, Wyatt C. Anderson, and Whitney L. Heppner 17 Answering Questions: A Comparison of Survey Satisficing and Mindlessness 312 David L. Vannette and Jon A. Krosnick 18 The Impact of Mindfulness on Creativity Research and Creativity Enhancement 328 Shelley Carson 19 Mediating Mindful Social Interactions Through Design 345 Kristina Niedderer 20 On Being Mindful of Time 367 Stuart Albert 21 Mindfulness and the Neuroscience of Influence 387 Emily B. Falk Part III Leadership and Organizational Behavior 405 22 Organizing for Mindfulness 407 Kathleen M. Sutcliffe and Timothy J. Vogus 23 Mindfulness and Organizational Defenses: Exploring Organizational and Institutional Challenges to Mindfulness 424 Silvia Jordan and Idar Alfred Johannessen 24 Mindful Leadership 443 James L. Ritchie-Dunham 25 Mindfulness at Work 458 Michael Pirson 26 Two (or More) Concepts of Mindfulness in Law and Conflict Resolution 471 Leonard L. Riskin 27 Mindfulness in Law 487 Scott L. Rogers