Divergent effects of brief contemplative practices in response to an acute stressor: A randomized controlled trial of brief breath awareness, loving-kindness, gratitude or an attention control practice

• Matthew J. Hirshberg ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: Hirshberg@wisc.edu

  Affiliations Center for Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States of America, Department of Educational Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9070-1270

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• Simon B. Goldberg,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center for Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States of America, Department of Counseling Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States of America, VA Puget Sound Health Care System-Seattle Division, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6888-0126

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• Stacey M. Schaefer,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States of America

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• Lisa Flook,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States of America

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• David Findley,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States of America

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• Richard J. Davidson

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center for Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States of America, Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States of America

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