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Willoughby B. Britton
Researcher at Brown University
Publications - 61
Citations - 3639
Willoughby B. Britton is an academic researcher from Brown University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mindfulness & Meditation. The author has an hindex of 23, co-authored 53 publications receiving 2734 citations. Previous affiliations of Willoughby B. Britton include University of Arizona.
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Mind the Hype: A Critical Evaluation and Prescriptive Agenda for Research on Mindfulness and Meditation:
Nicholas T. Van Dam,Marieke K. van Vugt,David R. Vago,Laura Schmalzl,Clifford D. Saron,Andrew Olendzki,Ted Meissner,Sara W. Lazar,Catherine E. Kerr,Jolie Gorchov,Kieran C. R. Fox,Brent A. Field,Willoughby B. Britton,Julie A. Brefczynski-Lewis,David E. Meyer +14 more
TL;DR: The difficulties of defining mindfulness are discussed, the proper scope of research into mindfulness practices is delineated, and crucial methodological issues for interpreting results from investigations of mindfulness are explained.
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The varieties of contemplative experience: A mixed-methods study of meditation-related challenges in Western Buddhists.
TL;DR: Identifying a broader range of experiences associated with meditation, along with the factors that contribute to the presence and management of experiences reported as challenging, difficult, distressing or functionally impairing, aims to increase the understanding of the effects of contemplative practices.
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Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy Improves Emotional Reactivity to Social Stress: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial ☆
TL;DR: Findings suggest that mindfulness skills are important in adaptive emotion regulation when coping with stress, given that emotional reactivity to stress is an important psychopathological process underlying the chronic and recurrent nature of depression.
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A randomized controlled pilot trial of classroom-based mindfulness meditation compared to an active control condition in sixth-grade children ☆
Willoughby B. Britton,Nathaniel E. Lepp,Halsey Niles,Tomas Rocha,Nathan E. Fisher,Jonathan S. Gold +5 more
TL;DR: The results suggest that mindfulness training may yield both unique and non-specific benefits that are shared by other novel activities.
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Mechanisms of Change in Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression: Preliminary Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the effect of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) on depressive symptoms and its potential theory-driven change mechanisms in a wait-list randomized control trial.