A brief online mindfulness induction improves creative art-making.
John Z ClayStephanie J KaneDarya L ZabelinaPublished in: Psychological research (2023)
Results show that mindfulness significantly enhances people's art, in this case their photographs. Findings also suggest that the mindfulness induction may not enhance participants' memory for art. Future studies will need to examine the effect of other types of mindfulness inductions (e.g., open-monitoring) on people's experience of viewing and making art.