APS
30th APS Annual Convention · 2018
Psychological outcomes of secular versus religious-based Yoga Practice: Beliefs may affect our compassionate altruism
- Rachna Rangan
The Wright Institute - Lynn O'Connor
Wright Institute - Jack Berry
Samford University - David Stiver
Graduate Theological Union
Abstract
Practitioners with a religion-based Yoga practice (N=198) were compared to Secular Yoga (N=138) practitioners, who used Yoga to improve fitness. Practitioners of religion-based Yoga, grounded in Hinduism, compared to secular practitioners, were significantly higher in altruism towards strangers and lower in empathic distress.
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