e. being short-sighted, effected by mood, environment, and so forth). Moreover, it seems to me that a double-blind system would have been best here with both researcher / facilitator and students unaware of the objective and intention of this study. The researcher may have unintentionally contaminated the mood of one group as compared to the other. These and further limitations need to be addressed before a reiterated similar study is conducted. Suggestions for future research in this area

The author's study seems to imply that mindfulness of non-evaluative objects not only enhances experience of that object but also extends to non-evaluative objects in one's immediate environment. It would be interesting to investigate whether results extend too to affective stimuli in one's immediate environment, and, furthermore, to expand research to mindfulness on affective-stimuli and assess whether participants are as equally able to discern implicit existence of evaluative phenomena in one's immediate environment as similarly as they can in regards to non-evaluative phenomena.

How can this be applied to understanding of human behavior?

In relation to the social field, Ayduk, Mischel, & Downey (2002) have observed that emotional sensitivity seems to be reduced when the individual focuses on the psychologically distancing, physiological reactions of the experience, rather than on the emotion itself. Social applications may involve shifting stimuli from affective to non-affective response by intentionally focusing on lower-level non-evaluative features. The prejudice target is evaluative in essence. Mindfully focusing on specific non-evaluative lower-level features of the prime may reduce, if not inhibit, the evaluative impact by one's attention being cognitively directed to non-evaluative stimuli

In other words, it may be possible that automatic prejudice could be reversed were participants to be encouraged...

De Houwer, Hermans, Rothermund, & Wertura, 2002; Klinger, Burton, & Pitts, 2000; Kluyer & Musch, 2002; Spruyt, De Houwer, Hermans, & Eelen, 2007). Selectively attending to nonaffective stimulus features may enable one to be more mindfully aware of like-minded stimuli, thereby, reducing, if not eliminating, the individual's prejudicial attitude.
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