B Alan Wallace
Biographic Data
| ID | 4318522 |
|---|---|
| NAME | B Alan Wallace |
| GIVEN NAMES | B Alan |
| FAMILY NAME | Wallace |
| SIGNATURE | WALLACE B A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6423-2626 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Spectrum of Buddhist Practice in the West
Intensive meditation training influences emotional responses to suffering
Meditation practices purportedly help people develop focused and sustained attention, cultivate feelings of compassionate concern for self and others, and strengthen motivation to help others who are in need. We examined the impact of 3 months of intensive meditative training on emotional responses to scenes of human suffering. Sixty participants were assigned randomly to either a 3-month intensive meditation retreat or a wait-list control group.…
Dreaming yourself awake
Contemplative/emotion training reduces negative emotional behavior and promotes prosocial responses
Contemplative practices are believed to alleviate psychological problems, cultivate prosocial behavior and promote self-awareness. In addition, psychological science has developed tools and models for understanding the mind and promoting well-being. Additional effort is needed to combine frameworks and techniques from these traditions to improve emotional experience and socioemotional behavior. An 8-week intensive (42 hr) meditation/emotion regul…
Enhanced response inhibition during intensive meditation training predicts improvements in self-reported adaptive socioemotional functioning
We examined the impact of training-induced improvements in self-regulation, operationalized in terms of response inhibition, on longitudinal changes in self-reported adaptive socioemotional functioning. Data were collected from participants undergoing 3 months of intensive meditation training in an isolated retreat setting (Retreat 1) and a wait-list control group that later underwent identical training (Retreat 2). A 32-min response inhibition t…
Intensive Meditation Training Improves Perceptual Discrimination and Sustained Attention
The ability to focus one’s attention underlies success in many everyday tasks, but voluntary attention cannot be sustained for extended periods of time. In the laboratory, sustained-attention failure is manifest as a decline in perceptual sensitivity with increasing time on task, known as the vigilance decrement. We investigated improvements in sustained attention with training (~5 hr/day for 3 months), which consisted of meditation practice that…
Mental balance and well-being
The Taboo of Subjectivity
Choosing Reality
Choosing Reality
The Taboo of Subjectivity
Mental balance and well-being
Intensive Meditation Training Improves Perceptual Discrimination and Sustained Attention
The ability to focus one’s attention underlies success in many everyday tasks, but voluntary attention cannot be sustained for extended periods of time. In the laboratory, sustained-attention failure is manifest as a decline in perceptual sensitivity with increasing time on task, known as the vigilance decrement. We investigated improvements in sustained attention with training (~5 hr/day for 3 months), which consisted of meditation practice that…
Contemplative/emotion training reduces negative emotional behavior and promotes prosocial responses
Contemplative practices are believed to alleviate psychological problems, cultivate prosocial behavior and promote self-awareness. In addition, psychological science has developed tools and models for understanding the mind and promoting well-being. Additional effort is needed to combine frameworks and techniques from these traditions to improve emotional experience and socioemotional behavior. An 8-week intensive (42 hr) meditation/emotion regul…
Enhanced response inhibition during intensive meditation training predicts improvements in self-reported adaptive socioemotional functioning
We examined the impact of training-induced improvements in self-regulation, operationalized in terms of response inhibition, on longitudinal changes in self-reported adaptive socioemotional functioning. Data were collected from participants undergoing 3 months of intensive meditation training in an isolated retreat setting (Retreat 1) and a wait-list control group that later underwent identical training (Retreat 2). A 32-min response inhibition t…
Dreaming yourself awake
Intensive meditation training influences emotional responses to suffering
Meditation practices purportedly help people develop focused and sustained attention, cultivate feelings of compassionate concern for self and others, and strengthen motivation to help others who are in need. We examined the impact of 3 months of intensive meditative training on emotional responses to scenes of human suffering. Sixty participants were assigned randomly to either a 3-month intensive meditation retreat or a wait-list control group.…
The Spectrum of Buddhist Practice in the West
Psychology (5 works) · Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions (4 works) · Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (3 works) · Clinical Psychology (3 works) · Clinical Psychology (3 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Anxiety (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Meditation (2 works) · Mindfulness (2 works)