Brief mindfulness meditation increases risk-taking behavior.
Scientific reports January 30, 2026 Lucy B G Tan, Marius Golubickis, C Neil Macrae 1 citation
A brief session of mindfulness-based meditation increases risk-taking behavior, as shown across two experiments using different tasks (Balloon Analogue Risk Task and Bomb Risk Elicitation Task), participants from the UK and Singapore, and both online and in-person settings. Compared to active and passive control conditions, mindfulness meditation led to greater risk taking. Computational modeling traced this effect to a reduction in loss aversion during decision-making.