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Willoughby B. Britton

Willoughby B. Britton

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
35
Citations
7369
World Ranking
6649
National Ranking
3223

Overview

Willoughby B. Britton is affiliated with Brown University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of psychology, with a primary focus on mindfulness and related interventions.

The main fields of their research include Psychology, with significant work in Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology, Health, and Psychiatry and Mental Health.

Their research topics cover a range of areas including:

  • Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction

Willoughby B. Britton has published in various academic venues, most frequently in:

  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Mindfulness
  • PLoS ONE
  • Clinical Psychological Science
  • Neuropsychology Review

Some recent publications authored or co-authored by them include:

  • Defining and Measuring Meditation-Related Adverse Effects in Mindfulness-Based Programs, 2021, Clinical Psychological Science
  • From Self-Esteem to Selflessness: An Evidence (Gap) Map of Self-Related Processes as Mechanisms of Mindfulness-Based Interventions, 2021, Frontiers in Psychology

Willoughby B. Britton often collaborates with a core group of researchers, including:

  • Jared R. Lindahl
  • Nicholas K. Canby
  • Roman Palitsky
  • David J. Cooper
  • Kristina Eichel

Best Publications

  • 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

  • The varieties of contemplative experience: A mixed-methods study of meditation-related challenges in Western Buddhists.

    Jared R. Lindahl;Nathan E. Fisher;David J. Cooper;Rochelle K. Rosen

  • Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy Improves Emotional Reactivity to Social Stress: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial ☆

    Willoughby B. Britton;Ben Shahar;Ohad Szepsenwol;W. Jake Jacobs

  • 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 F. Niles;Tomas Rocha

  • Women Benefit More Than Men in Response to College-based Meditation Training

    Rahil Rojiani;Juan F. Santoyo;Hadley Rahrig;Harold D. Roth

  • Can mindfulness be too much of a good thing? The value of a middle way.

    Willoughby B Britton

  • Mechanisms of Change in Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression: Preliminary Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial

    Ben Shahar;Willoughby B. Britton;David A. Sbarra;Aurelio Jose Figueredo

  • Effects of mindfulness training on body awareness to sexual stimuli: implications for female sexual dysfunction.

    R. Gina Silverstein;Anne-Catharine H. Brown;Harold D. Roth;Willoughby B. Britton

  • Defining and Measuring Meditation-Related Adverse Effects in Mindfulness-Based Programs:

    Willoughby B. Britton;Jared R. Lindahl;David J. Cooper;Nicholas K. Canby

  • The Contribution of Mindfulness Practice to a Multicomponent Behavioral Sleep Intervention Following Substance Abuse Treatment in Adolescents: A Treatment-Development Study

    Willoughby B. Britton;Richard R. Bootzin;Jennifer C. Cousins;Brant P. Hasler

  • Near-Death Experiences and the Temporal Lobe

    Willoughby B. Britton;Richard R. Bootzin

  • Mindfulness and Cardiovascular Disease Risk: State of the Evidence, Plausible Mechanisms, and Theoretical Framework.

    Eric B. Loucks;Zev Schuman-Olivier;Zev Schuman-Olivier;Willoughby B. Britton;David M. Fresco

  • Awakening is not a metaphor: the effects of Buddhist meditation practices on basic wakefulness

    Willoughby B. Britton;Jared R. Lindahl;B. Rael Cahn;Jake H. Davis

  • The Effect of Mindfulness-based Programs on Cognitive Function in Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

    Tim Whitfield;Thorsten Barnhofer;Rebecca Acabchuk;Avi Cohen

  • The effects of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy on affective memory recall dynamics in depression : A mechanistic model of rumination

    Marieke Karlijn Van Vugt;Peter Hitchcock;Ben Shahar;Willoughby Britton

  • Gender differences in response to a school-based mindfulness training intervention for early adolescents.

    Yoona Kang;Hadley Rahrig;Kristina Eichel;Halsey F. Niles

  • Polysomnographic and subjective profiles of sleep continuity before and after mindfulness-based cognitive therapy in partially remitted depression.

    Willoughby B. Britton;Patricia L. Haynes;Keith W. Fridel;Richard R. Bootzin

  • The Biopsychology of Trauma and Memory

    Jessica D. Payne;Lynn Nadel;Willoughby B. Britton;W. Jake Jacobs

  • Mindfulness Training Alters Emotional Memory Recall Compared to Active Controls: Support for an Emotional Information Processing Model of Mindfulness

    Douglas Roberts-Wolfe;Douglas Roberts-Wolfe;Matthew D. Sacchet;Matthew D. Sacchet;Elizabeth Hastings;Harold Roth

  • A phenomenology of meditation-induced light experiences: traditional buddhist and neurobiological perspectives.

    Jared R. Lindahl;Christopher T. Kaplan;Evan M. Winget;Willoughby B. Britton

  • From Self-Esteem to Selflessness: An Evidence (Gap) Map of Self-Related Processes as Mechanisms of Mindfulness-Based Interventions

    Willoughby B. Britton;Gaëlle Desbordes;Rebecca Acabchuk;Sarah Peters

  • The Contribution of Common and Specific Therapeutic Factors to Mindfulness-Based Intervention Outcomes.

    Nicholas K. Canby;Kristina Eichel;Jared Lindahl;Sathiarith Chau

  • Reiterated Concerns and Further Challenges for Mindfulness and Meditation Research: A Reply to Davidson and Dahl

    Nicholas T. Van Dam;Nicholas T. Van Dam;Marieke K. van Vugt;David R. Vago;Laura Schmalzl

  • Progress or Pathology? Differential Diagnosis and Intervention Criteria for Meditation-Related Challenges: Perspectives From Buddhist Meditation Teachers and Practitioners

    Jared R. Lindahl;David J. Cooper;Nathan E. Fisher;Laurence J. Kirmayer

  • Mindfulness-Based Blood Pressure Reduction (MB-BP): Stage 1 single-arm clinical trial

    Eric B. Loucks;William R. Nardi;Roee Gutman;Ian M. Kronish

  • A Retrospective Systematic Review of Diversity Variables in Mindfulness Research, 2000–2016

    Kristina Eichel;Richa Gawande;Rebecca L. Acabchuk;Roman Palitsky

  • Associations of Mindfulness with Glucose Regulation and Diabetes.

    Eric B Loucks;Stephen E Gilman;Willoughby B Britton;Roee Gutman

  • Predictors of Out-of-Class Mindfulness Practice Adherence During and After a Mindfulness-Based Intervention.

    Nicholas K Canby;Kristina Eichel;Sarah I Peters;Hadley Rahrig

  • Associations of Dispositional Mindfulness with Obesity and Central Adiposity: the New England Family Study.

    Eric B. Loucks;Willoughby B. Britton;Chanelle J. Howe;Roee Gutman

  • Challenging and Adverse Meditation Experiences: Toward a Person-Centered Approach

    Jared R. Lindahl;Willoughby B. Britton;David J. Cooper;Laurence J. Kirmayer

  • “Like a Vibration Cascading through the Body”: Energy-Like Somatic Experiences Reported by Western Buddhist Meditators

    David J. Cooper;Jared R. Lindahl;Roman Palitsky;Willoughby B. Britton

  • Scientific Literacy as a Foundational Competency for Teachers of Mindfulness-based Interventions

    Willoughby B. Britton

  • Contemplative Science: An Insider Prospectus

    Willoughby B. Britton;Anne-Catharine Brown;Christopher T. Kaplan;Roberta E. Goldman

  • Development and Validation of the Behavioral Tendencies Questionnaire.

    Nicholas T. Van Dam;Nicholas T. Van Dam;Anna Brown;Tom B. Mole;Jake H. Davis

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicholas T. Van Dam
Nicholas T. Van Dam University of Melbourne
Richard R. Bootzin
Richard R. Bootzin University of Arizona
David R. Vago
David R. Vago Vanderbilt University
Judson A. Brewer
Judson A. Brewer Brown University
Jessica D. Payne
Jessica D. Payne University of Notre Dame
Matthew D. Sacchet
Matthew D. Sacchet Harvard University
David E. Meyer
David E. Meyer University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Clifford D. Saron
Clifford D. Saron University of California, Davis
W. Jake Jacobs
W. Jake Jacobs University of Arizona
Shauna L. Shapiro
Shauna L. Shapiro Santa Clara University

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