Previous trials of sham meditation
Posted in Study Summary, mechanism, meditation, research, research methodology, sahaja yoga meditation on Nov 12th, 2009
The diversity, and apparent impotence, of many meditative practices makes the construction of sham meditation quite feasible since researchers can develop rationales to justify almost any method that approximates the expectations of trial participants.
For instance, Smith’s (1995) RCT compared TM to an imitation exercise designed to closely mimic the entire technique, except for the proprietary [...]
