Introduction
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Mindfulness is conceptualized as a state or trait of open and nonjudgmental awareness of and attention to one’s experiences (e.g., sensation, cognition, and emotion) in the present momentOne limitation of these studies, as a recent review points outAnother limitation of these previous studies is that they have been focused on (hypothetical) behavioral outcomes, which are the end-point products of underlying cognitive processesTo probe and quantitatively characterize the cognitive processes underlying moral decision-making and moral judgment, we adopted a harm aversion moral decision-making taskPrevious studies on mindfulness have identified two possible ways in which mindfulness training could influence the aforementioned cognitive processes underlying moral decision-making and moral judgment. First, mindfulness training could lead to higher empathic concern for others’ sufferingPrevious work has shown that moral judgment in the harm aversion setting is also driven by the two choice attributes, namely profit for the Decider and pain for the Receiver