Exploring the Connection Between Self-Compassion, Forgiveness, and Well-Being in Older Adults (Goel & Appachu, 2024)
The research highlights the importance to encourage self-compassion and forgiveness to improve older people’s mental health
Name | Area of Research | Institute | Location | Personal Website or School Profile | Lab |
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Adam Anderson | emotion, cognition, affective, social & cognitive neuroscience | Cornell | New York | https://www.human.cornell.edu/people/aka47 | ACLAB: Affect and Cognition Lab |
Joanna Arch | Anxiety, disease, mindfulness interventions | CU Boulder | Colorado | https://www.colorado.edu/clinicalpsychology/joanna-arch-phd | Arch Laboratory |
Anthony Back | Medical oncology, clinical interventions | University of Washington | Washington | https://depts.washington.edu/oncology/faculty/back.html | N/A |
Kent Berridge | Addiction; Decision-making; Affective Emotional; Biopsychology; Learning, Motivation, Neuroscience | University of Michigan | Michigan | https://lsa.umich.edu/psych/people/faculty/berridge.html | Berridge Lab |
David Black | Integrative medicine, Mindfulness, Psycho-oncology, Addiction, Psychosomatics | University of Southern California | California | https://profiles.sc-ctsi.org/david.black | USC Center for Mindfulness Science |
Sarah Bowen | Mindfulness interventions for addiction | Pacific University | Oregon | https://www.pacificu.edu/about/directory/people/sarah-bowen-phd | N/A |
Julie Brefczynski-Lewis | Compassion meditation, stress | West Virginia University | West Virginia | https://directory.hsc.wvu.edu/Profile/36369 | N/A |
Judson Brewer | Mindfulness, behavioral change | Brown University | Rhode Island | https://www.brown.edu/public-health/mindfulness/people/judson-brewer-md-phd | Mindfulness Center at Brown |
Willoughby Britton | Mindfulness interventions for mood and anxiety disorders | Brown University | Rhode Island | https://www.brown.edu/public-health/mindfulness/node/19 | The Clinical and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory (CLANlab) |
Rael Cahn | University of Southern California | California | https://keck.usc.edu/faculty-search/rael-cahn/ | USC Center for Mindfulness Science | |
Doris Chang | Race, culture, mindfulness interventions | New York University | New York | http://socialwork.nyu.edu/faculty-and-research/our-faculty/doris-f-chang.html | Doris Chang, Ph.D |
Michael Christopher | integrated mindfulness and resilience training, measurement of mindfulness and related contemplative practices | Pacific University | Oregon | https://www.pacificu.edu/about/directory/people/michael-christopher-phd-lab-director | Mindful Health & Resilience Lab |
Jim Coan | neural systems supporting social forms of emotion regulation | University of Virgina | Virginia | N/A | Virginia Affective Neuroscience (VAN) Laboratory |
Paul Condon | impact of meditation on social processes and emotion regulation | Southern Oregon University | Oregon | https://inside.sou.edu/psychology/faculty/paul-condon.html | N/A |
David Creswell | stress resilience and mindfulness meditation | Carnegie Mellon University | Pennsylvania | https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/psychology/people/core-training-faculty/creswell-david.html | The Health and Human Performance lab |
Richard Davidson | cortical and subcortical substrates of emotion and affective disorders, including depression and anxiety, mindfulness interventions | University of Wisconsin- Madison | Wisconsin | https://psych.wisc.edu/staff/davidson-richard/ | Center for Healthy Minds |
Sona Dimidjian | cultivating the mental health and wellness of women, children, families, and communities. contemplative practices and behavioral skills in healthcare and educational settings | University of Colorado- Boulder | Colorado | https://www.colorado.edu/crowninstitute/sona-dimidjian-phd | Renée Crown Wellness Institute |
John Dunne | Buddhist Philosophy and Contemplative Practice, Religious Studies, Cognitive Science, Contemplative Research | University of Wisconsin- Madison | Wisconsin | https://alc.wisc.edu/staff/john-d-dunne/ | Center for Healthy Minds |
Jacquelynne Eccles | Academic Motivation and Achievement, School and Family Influences on Adolescent Development, Gender and Ethnicity in STEM Fields | University of California- Irvine | California | https://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5971 | N/A |
Elissa Epel | mechanisms of healthy aging | University of California- San Francisco | California | https://profiles.ucsf.edu/elissa.epel | N/A |
Monique Ernst | neural systems model of motivated behavior, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry | National Institute of Health | Massachusetts | N/A | N/A |
Lisa Feldman Barrett | nature of emotion from the perspectives of both psychology and neuroscience | Northeastern University | Massachusetts | https://cos.northeastern.edu/people/lisa-barrett/ | |
Barbara Frederickson | how positive emotions affect people’s thinking patterns, social behavior, health, and physiological reactions. | University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill | North Carolina | https://unclineberger.org/directory/barbara-fredrickson/ | Positive Emotions and Psychophysiology Laboratory |
David Fresco | affective science, anxiety disorder (GAD) and major depressive disorder (MDD) | Kent State University | Ohio | https://www.kent.edu/psychology/profile/david-m-fresco | Psychopathology and Emotion Regulation Laboratory (PERL) |
Eric Garland | Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement, positive psychology, integrative intervention, addiction | University of Utah | Utah | https://faculty.utah.edu/u0889676-Eric_L_Garland/hm/index.hml | Center on Mindfulness and Integrative Health Intervention Development |
Philippe Goldin | functional neuroimaging, emotion, health promotion, clinical psychology and cognitive-affective neuroscience | University of California- Davis | California | https://health.ucdavis.edu/nursing/ourteam/faculty/Goldin_bio.html | Clinically Applied Affective Neuroscience/ |
Sherryl Goodman | developmental psychopathology perspective, risk and protective factors and vulnerabilities to the development of psychopathology | Emory University | Georgia | http://psychology.emory.edu/home/people/faculty/goodman-sherryl.html | Children’s and Mothers’ Emotions Lab (CAMEL) |
Marcia Grabowecky | Attention, Perception, Consciousness, Cognitive Neuroscience | Northwestern University | Illinois | https://psychology.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/core/profiles/marcia-grabowecky.html | Multisensory Lab |
Mark Greenberg | developmental processes, externalizing disorders, school-based prevention, evidence-based programs, contemplative practices and mindfulness interventions | Penn State University | Pennsylvania | https://hhd.psu.edu/contact/mark-greenberg | https://www.prevention.psu.edu/ |
Peter Grossenbacher | meditation, practitioners' development of compassion, engagement with awareness, and personal worldview transformation | Naropa University | Colorado | https://www.naropa.edu/faculty/peter-grossenbacher.php | N/A |
Bill Harbaugh | Altruism and Neuroeconomics, Economic Behavior of Children, Experimental Economics, neural bases of compassion | University of Oregon | Oregon | https://harbaugh.uoregon.edu/ | Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center |
Wendy Hasenkamp | psychopathology, attention, mind-wandering | University of Virginia | Virginia | https://psychology.as.virginia.edu/people/profile/wmh6f | Wendy Hasenkamp |
Patricia Jennings | CALM, social and emotional learning, mindfulness educational interventions | University of Virginia | Virginia | https://curry.virginia.edu/patricia-jennings | Contemplative Teaching and Learning (CTL) Lab |
Amisha Jha | attention, working memory, mindfulness | University of Miami | Florida | https://people.miami.edu/profile/a.jha@miami.edu | The Jha Lab |
Shinobu Kitayama | culture, emotion, cognition, group differences | University of Michigan | Michigan | https://lsa.umich.edu/psych/people/faculty/kitayama.html | Culture and Cognition Lab |
Sara Lewis | social justice, engaged Buddhist activism, and contemplative care | Naropa University | Colorado | https://www.naropa.edu/faculty/sara-lewis.php | N/A |
Eric Louck | Mindfulness-Based Blood Pressure Reduction (MB-BP), mindfulness on heart disease and stroke risk factors | Brown University | Rhode Island | https://www.brown.edu/public-health/mindfulness/people/eric-b-loucks-phd | Mindfulness & Cardiovascular (MCV) Health Lab |
Richard Maddock | Anxiety Disorders, Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, Meditation | University of California- Davis | California | https://health.ucdavis.edu/irc/content/people/maddock.html | Image Research Center |
Jennifer Mascaro | social connectivity, compassion and mindfulness meditation | Emory University | Georgia | https://winshipcancer.emory.edu/bios/faculty/mascaro-jennifer.html | Winship Cancer Institute |
David Meyer | Cognition, Unified cognitive theory, Mind-body problem, Multi-tasking, Contemplative science | University of Michigan | Michigan | https://lsa.umich.edu/psych/people/faculty/demeyer.html | The Brain, Cognition, and Action Laboratory |
Yoshio Nakamura | consciousness, emotion and pain, mind-body | University of Utah | Utah | https://medicine.utah.edu/faculty/mddetail.php?facultyID=u0273988 | N/A |
Lobsang Tenzin Negi | Cognitively-Based Compassion Training (CBCT), compassion, meditation, contemplative studies | Emory University | Georgia | http://religion.emory.edu/home/people/faculty/negi-lobsang.html | N/A |
Ken Paller | Human memory, perception, and cognition, Biological bases of mental phenomena, Cognitive Neuroscience | Northwestern University | Illinois | https://psychology.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/core/profiles/ken-paller.html | Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory |
Luiz Pessoa | interactions between cognition and emotion/motivation in the human brain | University of Maryland | Massachusetts | https://psyc.umd.edu/facultyprofile/pessoa/luiz#tab-biography | Laboratory of Cognition & Emotion |
Charles Raison | Treatment development major depressive disorder | University of Wisconsin- Madison | Wisconsin | https://www.psychiatry.wisc.edu/staff/raison-charles/ | N/A |
Laura Rendón | access, retention and graduation of low-income, first-generation college students, wholeness and social justice. | University of Texas-San Antonio | Texas | http://www2.education.uiowa.edu/html/iae/Pages/bio-rendon.html | N/A |
Robert Roeser | Contemplative practices in education for staff and students | Penn State University | Pennsylvania | https://hhd.psu.edu/contact/robert-roeser | Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center |
Clifford Saron | training of attention and emotion regulation, electrophysiological and behavioral methods to study sensory and cognitive processes in humans, tangible effects of meditation. | University of California- Davis | California | https://mindbrain.ucdavis.edu/people/saron | The Saron Lab |
Michael Spezio | Decision science, cognitive science, computational cognitive neuroscience | Scripps College | California | https://www.scrippscollege.edu/academics/faculty/profile/michael-spezio | The Laboratory for Inquiry into Valuation and Emotion (LIVE) Lab |
Hilary Tindle | smoking cessation | Vanderbilt University | Tennessee | https://www.vumc.org/vital/person/hilary-tindle-md-mph | ViTAL: The Vanderbilt Center for Tobacco, Addiction and Lifestyle |
Jeanne Tsai | cultural shaping of emotion and its implications for health, decision-making, and person perception | Stanford University | California | https://profiles.stanford.edu/jeanne-tsai | Culture and Emotion Lab |
David Vago | Neuropsychiatry, depression, PTSD, anxiety, stress, psychopathology, neuroimaging, meditation, mindfulness, integrative medicine, learning, memory, affective neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, contemplative neuroscience | Vanderbilt University | Tennessee | https://www.vumc.org/viiii/person/david-r-vago-phd | Cognitive, Affective, and Contemplative Neuroscience Research |
Kirk Brown | role of attention and awareness, and specifically mindfulness, in self-regulation and psychological, physical and social well-being. | Virginia Commonwealth University | Virginia | https://psychology.vcu.edu/people/faculty/brown.html | Wellbeing Lab |
Peter Wayne | complementary and alternative medicine practices, chronic health conditions | Harvard University | Massachusetts | https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/health-happiness/people/peter-wayne-phd/ | Lee Kum Sheung Center for Health and Happiness |
Helen Weng | neurobiological mechanisms through which meditation training may improve social behavior and mental health | University of California San Francisco | California | https://profiles.ucsf.edu/yixin.weng | Helen Weng, PhD |
Carol Worthman | Biological anthropology, Human reproduction, Human development, Biocultural and life history theory, Developmental epidemiology | Emory University | Georgia | http://anthropology.emory.edu/home/people/worthman-emeritus.html | N/A |
Fadel Zeidan | neural processes supporting mindfulness meditation and mindfulness-based pain relief | University of California - San Diego | California | https://profiles.ucsd.edu/fadel.zeidan | Brain Mechanisms of Pain & Health Lab |
Phil Zelazo | Developmental cognitive neuroscience | University of Minnesota | Minnesota | https://www.cehd.umn.edu/people/zelazo/ | Developmental Social Cognitive Neuroscience Lab |
Linda Carlson | Interventions for cancer patients | University of Calgary | Calgary | https://www.ucalgary.ca/people/linda-carlson/carlson-lab-team | https://www.ucalgary.ca/people/linda-carlson/carlson-lab-team |
Zindel Segal | Clinical Applications of Mindfulness, Efectiveness of web-based delivery of MBCT | University of Toronto | Toronto | https://https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/labs/mindful-awareness/ | https://https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/labs/mindful-awareness/ |
Nancy Kocovski | Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and mindfulness-based strategies for Social Anxiety | Wilfrid Laurier University | Ontario | https://www.wlu.ca/academics/faculties/faculty-of-science/faculty-profiles/nancy-kocovski/index.html | https://www.wlu.ca/academics/faculties/faculty-of-science/faculty-profiles/nancy-kocovski/index.html |
Alexandra Fiocco | Wellbeing of Older Adults, Effect of mindfulness training in healthy older adults and older adults who experience chronic stress. | Ryerson Univeristy | Toronto | https://psychlabs.ryerson.ca/starlab/ | https://psychlabs.ryerson.ca/starlab/ |
Mark Lau | Investigating the mechanisms underlying MBCT’s effectiveness, the development and validation of the Toronto Mindfulness Scale, and evaluating effective methods of disseminating MBCT and CBT | University of British Columbia | British Columbia | https://psychiatry.ubc.ca/person/mark-lau/ and https://www.vchri.ca/researchers/mark-lau | https://psychiatry.ubc.ca/person/mark-lau/ and https://www.vchri.ca/researchers/mark-lau |
Bassam Khoury | Mindfulness based interventions, mindfulness measurement tools, meta analyses | McGill University | Quebec | http://www.drkhoury-montrealtherapist.com/psychologist-montreal/ | http://www.drkhoury-montrealtherapist.com/psychologist-montreal/ |
The research highlights the importance to encourage self-compassion and forgiveness to improve older people’s mental health
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