Peter Sedlmeier
Biographic Data
| ID | 194520 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Sedlmeier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Sedlmeier |
| SIGNATURE | SEDLMEIER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chemnitz University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7998-6313 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 68 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
What is self-love? Redefinition of a controversial construct
The Psychology of Meditation: Varieties, Effects, Theories, and Perspectives
All you need to know about the psychology of meditation: Written by an expert in the field Provides unique theories of meditation approaches Explores traditional and Western approaches Recommends how to improve future research Explores new topics, e.g., negative effects More about the book What is meditation? What do people hope to get from practicing it and what do they really get? How can the effects of meditation be explained? And what are the…
Embodied Cognition in Meditation, Yoga, and Ethics—An Experimental Single-Case Study on the Differential Effects of Four Mind–Body Treatments
Yoga is an embodied contemplative practice considered as a path toward long-term well-being, which fosters an integrated processing of bodily and emotional stimuli. However, little is known about how the different components of yoga contribute to these processes. This was the aim of this single-case multiple-baseline study. Herein, we explored how different yoga components affect body awareness, emotion regulation, affectivity, self-compassion, a…
Psychology of Meditation: Varieties, Effects, Theories, and Perspectives
How General Is the Semantic Structure of Time? A Comparison of Indians and Germans
People in different cultures differ in their time-related behaviors and judgments. But do they also differ in how time is represented in their minds, that is, in their semantic structures of time, and if so, how and why? Two studies addressed these questions using participants’ time-related associative responses to compare the semantic structures of time across Indian and German university students. Study 1 compared time-related associations and …
How Persistent are Grammatical Gender Effects? The Case of German and Tamil
Is meditation associated with altered brain structure? A systematic review and meta-analysis of morphometric neuroimaging in meditation practitioners
Meta-analyses and other methodological issues in meditation research: Reply to Orme-Johnson and Dillbeck (2014)
We are grateful to Orme-Johnson and Dillbeck (2014) for raising several potential methodological concerns they have with our meta-analysis of the psychological effects of meditation and for thereby providing us with the opportunity to clarify these points. Orme-Johnson and Dillbeck raised 4 points that they believed might have led to unfair treatment of studies that reported the effects of transcendental meditation (TM). First, they were concerne…
The psychological functions of music listening
Why do people listen to music? Over the past several decades, scholars have proposed numerous functions that listening to music might fulfill. However, different theoretical approaches, different methods, and different samples have left a heterogeneous picture regarding the number and nature of musical functions. Moreover, there remains no agreement about the underlying dimensions of these functions. Part one of the paper reviews the research con…
The Effects of Mindfulness Meditation: A Meta-Analysis
What Are the Important Decisions in the Lives of German and Indian University Students? The Structure of Real-Life Decision-Making Processes
The psychological effects of meditation: A meta-analysis
In this meta-analysis, we give a comprehensive overview of the effects of meditation on psychological variables that can be extracted from empirical studies, concentrating on the effects of meditation on nonclinical groups of adult meditators. Mostly because of methodological problems, almost 3⁄4 of an initially identified 595 studies had to be excluded. Most studies appear to have been conducted without sufficient theoretical background. To put …
From the functions of music to music preference
To date, not much is known about how the functions of music relate to music preference. This article examines the basic hypothesis that the strength of preference for a given kind of music depends on the degree to which that kind of music serves the needs of the listener; that is, how well the respective functions of music are fulfilled. Study 1, a pilot study, identified the best-known musical styles of the participants, yielding 25 styles that …
Was Bernoulli wrong? On intuitions about sample size
Recently we proposed an explanation for the apparently inconsistent result that people sometimes take account of sample size and sometimes do not: Human intuitions conform to the ‘empirical law of large numbers,' which helps to solve what we called ‘frequency distribution tasks' but not ‘sampling distribution tasks' (Sedlmeier and Gigerenzer, 1997). Keren and Lewis (2000) do not provide an alternative explanation but present a three-pronged criti…
Improving statistical reasoning: Theoretical Models and Practical Implications
Improving Statistical Reasoning presents new studies of how people think and act on probabilistic information, focusing on the details of how statistical reasoning works and on training programs that can exploit people's natural cognitive capabilities to improve their statistical reasoning. Training programs that take into account findings from evolutionary psychology and instructional theory are shown to have substantially larger effects that ar…
The distribution matters: Two types of sample-size tasks
Different studies on how well people take sample size into account have found a wide range of solution rates. In a recent review, Sedlmeier and Gigerenzer (1997) suggested that a substantial part of the variation in results can be explained by the fact that experimenters have used two different types of sample-size tasks, one involving frequency distributions and the other sampling distributions. This suggestion rested on an analysis of studies t…
Intuitions about sample size: The empirical law of large numbers
According to Jacob Bernoulli, even the ‘stupidest man’ knows that the larger one's sample of observations, the more confidence one can have in being close to the truth about the phenomenon observed. Two-and-a-half centuries later, psychologists empirically tested people's intuitions about sample size. One group of such studies found participants attentive to sample size; another found participants ignoring it. We suggest an explanation for a subs…
Do studies of statistical power have an effect on the power of studies
The long-term impact of studies of statistical power is investigated using J. Cohen's (1962) pioneering work as an example. We argue that the impact is nil; the power of studies in the same journal that Cohen reviewed (now the Journal of Abnormal Psychology) has not increased over the past 24 years. In 1960 the median power (i.e., the probability that a significant result will be obtained if there is a true effect) was.46 for a medium size effect…
Do studies of statistical power have an effect on the power of studies
The long-term impact of studies of statistical power is investigated using J. Cohen's (1962) pioneering work as an example. We argue that the impact is nil; the power of studies in the same journal that Cohen reviewed (now the Journal of Abnormal Psychology) has not increased over the past 24 years. In 1960 the median power (i.e., the probability that a significant result will be obtained if there is a true effect) was.46 for a medium size effect…
The psychological functions of music listening
Why do people listen to music? Over the past several decades, scholars have proposed numerous functions that listening to music might fulfill. However, different theoretical approaches, different methods, and different samples have left a heterogeneous picture regarding the number and nature of musical functions. Moreover, there remains no agreement about the underlying dimensions of these functions. Part one of the paper reviews the research con…
The psychological effects of meditation: A meta-analysis
In this meta-analysis, we give a comprehensive overview of the effects of meditation on psychological variables that can be extracted from empirical studies, concentrating on the effects of meditation on nonclinical groups of adult meditators. Mostly because of methodological problems, almost 3⁄4 of an initially identified 595 studies had to be excluded. Most studies appear to have been conducted without sufficient theoretical background. To put …
How Persistent are Grammatical Gender Effects? The Case of German and Tamil
What Are the Important Decisions in the Lives of German and Indian University Students? The Structure of Real-Life Decision-Making Processes
How General Is the Semantic Structure of Time? A Comparison of Indians and Germans
People in different cultures differ in their time-related behaviors and judgments. But do they also differ in how time is represented in their minds, that is, in their semantic structures of time, and if so, how and why? Two studies addressed these questions using participants’ time-related associative responses to compare the semantic structures of time across Indian and German university students. Study 1 compared time-related associations and …
Do studies of statistical power have an effect on the power of studies
The long-term impact of studies of statistical power is investigated using J. Cohen's (1962) pioneering work as an example. We argue that the impact is nil; the power of studies in the same journal that Cohen reviewed (now the Journal of Abnormal Psychology) has not increased over the past 24 years. In 1960 the median power (i.e., the probability that a significant result will be obtained if there is a true effect) was.46 for a medium size effect…
Intuitions about sample size: The empirical law of large numbers
According to Jacob Bernoulli, even the ‘stupidest man’ knows that the larger one's sample of observations, the more confidence one can have in being close to the truth about the phenomenon observed. Two-and-a-half centuries later, psychologists empirically tested people's intuitions about sample size. One group of such studies found participants attentive to sample size; another found participants ignoring it. We suggest an explanation for a subs…
The distribution matters: Two types of sample-size tasks
Different studies on how well people take sample size into account have found a wide range of solution rates. In a recent review, Sedlmeier and Gigerenzer (1997) suggested that a substantial part of the variation in results can be explained by the fact that experimenters have used two different types of sample-size tasks, one involving frequency distributions and the other sampling distributions. This suggestion rested on an analysis of studies t…
Improving statistical reasoning: Theoretical Models and Practical Implications
Improving Statistical Reasoning presents new studies of how people think and act on probabilistic information, focusing on the details of how statistical reasoning works and on training programs that can exploit people's natural cognitive capabilities to improve their statistical reasoning. Training programs that take into account findings from evolutionary psychology and instructional theory are shown to have substantially larger effects that ar…
Was Bernoulli wrong? On intuitions about sample size
Recently we proposed an explanation for the apparently inconsistent result that people sometimes take account of sample size and sometimes do not: Human intuitions conform to the ‘empirical law of large numbers,' which helps to solve what we called ‘frequency distribution tasks' but not ‘sampling distribution tasks' (Sedlmeier and Gigerenzer, 1997). Keren and Lewis (2000) do not provide an alternative explanation but present a three-pronged criti…
From the functions of music to music preference
To date, not much is known about how the functions of music relate to music preference. This article examines the basic hypothesis that the strength of preference for a given kind of music depends on the degree to which that kind of music serves the needs of the listener; that is, how well the respective functions of music are fulfilled. Study 1, a pilot study, identified the best-known musical styles of the participants, yielding 25 styles that …
The Effects of Mindfulness Meditation: A Meta-Analysis
What Are the Important Decisions in the Lives of German and Indian University Students? The Structure of Real-Life Decision-Making Processes
The psychological effects of meditation: A meta-analysis
In this meta-analysis, we give a comprehensive overview of the effects of meditation on psychological variables that can be extracted from empirical studies, concentrating on the effects of meditation on nonclinical groups of adult meditators. Mostly because of methodological problems, almost 3⁄4 of an initially identified 595 studies had to be excluded. Most studies appear to have been conducted without sufficient theoretical background. To put …
The psychological functions of music listening
Why do people listen to music? Over the past several decades, scholars have proposed numerous functions that listening to music might fulfill. However, different theoretical approaches, different methods, and different samples have left a heterogeneous picture regarding the number and nature of musical functions. Moreover, there remains no agreement about the underlying dimensions of these functions. Part one of the paper reviews the research con…
Is meditation associated with altered brain structure? A systematic review and meta-analysis of morphometric neuroimaging in meditation practitioners
Meta-analyses and other methodological issues in meditation research: Reply to Orme-Johnson and Dillbeck (2014)
We are grateful to Orme-Johnson and Dillbeck (2014) for raising several potential methodological concerns they have with our meta-analysis of the psychological effects of meditation and for thereby providing us with the opportunity to clarify these points. Orme-Johnson and Dillbeck raised 4 points that they believed might have led to unfair treatment of studies that reported the effects of transcendental meditation (TM). First, they were concerne…
How Persistent are Grammatical Gender Effects? The Case of German and Tamil
How General Is the Semantic Structure of Time? A Comparison of Indians and Germans
People in different cultures differ in their time-related behaviors and judgments. But do they also differ in how time is represented in their minds, that is, in their semantic structures of time, and if so, how and why? Two studies addressed these questions using participants’ time-related associative responses to compare the semantic structures of time across Indian and German university students. Study 1 compared time-related associations and …
The Psychology of Meditation: Varieties, Effects, Theories, and Perspectives
All you need to know about the psychology of meditation: Written by an expert in the field Provides unique theories of meditation approaches Explores traditional and Western approaches Recommends how to improve future research Explores new topics, e.g., negative effects More about the book What is meditation? What do people hope to get from practicing it and what do they really get? How can the effects of meditation be explained? And what are the…
Embodied Cognition in Meditation, Yoga, and Ethics—An Experimental Single-Case Study on the Differential Effects of Four Mind–Body Treatments
Yoga is an embodied contemplative practice considered as a path toward long-term well-being, which fosters an integrated processing of bodily and emotional stimuli. However, little is known about how the different components of yoga contribute to these processes. This was the aim of this single-case multiple-baseline study. Herein, we explored how different yoga components affect body awareness, emotion regulation, affectivity, self-compassion, a…
Psychology of Meditation: Varieties, Effects, Theories, and Perspectives
What is self-love? Redefinition of a controversial construct
Psychology (13 works) · Mathematics (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Statistics (5 works) · Econometrics (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Meditation (4 works) · Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)