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URL:https://buddhiststudies.utoronto.ca/events/getting-mindfulness-right-p
 romises-pitfalls-potential-secular-mindfulness-movement/
SUMMARY:Getting Mindfulness Right: Promises\, Pitfalls\, and Potential of t
 he Secular Mindfulness Movement
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the first event in our Intersections Between Buddhi
 sm &amp\; Society Public Lecture Series\nProfessor Norm Farb on "Getting M
 indfulness Right: Promises\, Pitfalls\, and Potential of the Secular Mind
 fulness Movement"\nNorman Farb is Associate Professor of Psychology at the
  University of Toronto Mississauga. He studies the neuroscience of human i
 dentity and emotion\, with a focus on how cognitive biases shape emotional
  reactions that determine well-being. For example\, some people seem to sh
 rug off stressful encounters\, whereas others cannot let them go. What dis
 tinguishes these people? Is it something about how they construe themselve
 s and the world? What consequences do habitual patterns of self-reference 
 have for well-being? How can we measure seemingly ephemeral constructs suc
 h as self-reference and emotion? To these ends\, his work employs multiple
  levels of analysis\, including first and third-person qualitative reports
 \, behavioral task performance\, physiological responses\, and patterns of
  neural activity and connectivity derived primarily through functional MRI
 . In his research\, he is particularly interested in how cognitive trainin
 g practices such as mindfulness meditation foster resilience against stres
 s\, reducing vulnerability to affective disorders such as depression.
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CATEGORIES:Lecture,Public Talk
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Rm 318\, 170 St. George St\, Toronto
 \, ON\, M5R2M8\, Canada
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