Correlation between Mindfulness and Mind Reading in the Eye

vahid nejati; Abas Zabihzadeh; Mohammad R. Nikfarjam; Zohre Naderi; Ali Pournaghdali

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Correlation between Mindfulness and Mind Reading in the Eye

Author(s):

vahid nejati^1,*,

Abas Zabihzadeh²,

Mohammad R. Nikfarjam³,

Zohre Naderi³,

Ali Pournaghdali⁴

1Assistant Professor of cognitive neuroscience, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.

2MSc Student of clinical child and adolescent psychology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.

3MSc Student of clinical psychology, Allameh Tabatabaee University, Tehran, Iran.

4MSc Student of cognitive science, Institute for cognitive science studies, Tehran, Iran.

Zahedan Journal of Research in Medical Sciences:Vol. 14, issue 1; e93667

Published online:Dec 28, 2011

Article type:Research Article

Received:Apr 17, 2010

Accepted:Sep 15, 2011

How to Cite:vahid nejatiAbas ZabihzadehMohammad R. NikfarjamZohre NaderiAli PournaghdaliCorrelation between Mindfulness and Mind Reading in the Eye.Zahedan J Res Med Sci.14(1):e93667.

Abstract

Background: Mind reading is a social cognitive ability and mindfulness is a self-regulatory guidance of attention to task. The purpose of present study is to evaluate the correlation between mind reading and mindfulness.

Materials and Method: Forty subjects were participated in this cross-sectional study. Mean age was 21.5 years. Each of participants completed mindfulness questionnaire and neuropsychologic test of mind reading from the eye. Pearson correlation test is used for evaluation of the correlation.

Results: Findings show significant correlation between mindfulness and mindreading. Also those findings showed a significant correlation between mind reading in the self and others eyes (p<0.05) .

Conclusion: Similar nature and neural substrate of mindfulness and mind reading may be a reason for their correlation. Mindfulness can be considered as proper predictor of mind reading. Also neural base of mind reading in the self and others eyes are the same. [ZJRMS, 2012 14(1): 37-42 ]

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