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. 2018 Dec 11;9:2521. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02521

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Experimental procedure. First, participants put on the BioHarness. Participants were then seated at a computer with dividers providing separation from other participants. They followed on-screen instructions for the remainder of the experiment. Participants completed computer-based questionnaires, then sensory discriminability and mind-wandering tasks. Participants read general meditation instructions, then anchor-specific instructions for three 10-min meditation practices (breath, phrase, and image). All participants engaged each of the meditation anchors in a random order and anchor-order did not moderate results. Partiality towards each anchor was collected at three time-points: before knowing anything about the meditations (T1: initial instruction-naïve biases), after reading the instructions but before practicing (T2: practice-naïve motivation), and after practicing with the anchor for 10 min (T3: post-practice partiality).