Research Publications

2026

Bailey, C., Van Dam, N, Davies, J., Schilling, C. & Galante, J. (2026). Quality-of-life, healthcare use and cost of practice from a nationally-representative Australian survey to inform future economic evaluations of contemplative practices. Mindfulness. DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/svtby_v1

Cebolla, A., Fernández-Castilla, B., Lecuona, O., Navarro-Siurana, J., Galante, J., Sarrión, P., Vidal, J., Baños, R.M. & Vázquez, C. (2026). Efficacy of cultivating human strengths and virtues on well-being: A one-stage meta-analytic structural equation modeling approach. Clinical Psychology Review, 124. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2026.102692

2025

Adams, J., Davies, J., Wattanatakulchat, P., Galante, J., Miller, F., Alfonso, S.D., Van Dam, N.T. (in press). Engagement with meditation apps: A cross-sectional survey of use and associations. Journal of Medical Internet Research. DOI: 10.2196/71960

Bowles, N., Burger, A., Davies, J.N., Galante, J., Dennis, S., Stone, B., Simpson, J.A. & Van Dam, N.T. (2025). Examining dose-response effects of Mindfulness Meditation interventions on wellbeing study: Protocol for a randomized controlled trial. JMIR Research Protocols, 14. DOI: 10.2196/72786

Bowles, N. I., & Van Dam, N. T. (2025). Dose–response effects of reported meditation practice on mental-health and wellbeing: A prospective longitudinal study. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, 17(4). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/aphw.70063

Cebolla, A., Navarro-Siurana, J., Galante, J., Sarrión, P., Vidal, J., Fernández-Castilla, B., Lecuona, O., Vázquez, C., & Baños, R. M. (2025). A synthesis of RCTs on psychological interventions fostering strengths and virtues: Evidence from 21 systematic reviews. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, 17(4), e70069. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/aphw.70069

Davies, J.N., Bailey, C., Galante, J. & Van Dam, N.T. (2025, pre-print). Prevalence and predictors of meditation use in Australia and New Zealand: results from a nationally representative survey. BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12906-025-05183-4

Ganesan, S., Van Dam, N., Kamboj, S., Tsuchiyagaito, A., Sacchet, M.D., Misaki, M., Moffat, B.A., Lorenzetti, V. & Zalesky, A. (2025). Neurofeedback training facilitates awareness and enhances emotional well-being associated with real-world meditation practice: A 7-T MRI Study. Mindfulness . DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-025-02671-z

Vainre, M., Dalgleish, T., Bendriss-Otiko, T., Kirkpatrick, A., Kosugiyama, N., Mariscotti, F., Martinez-Sosa, D., Sideri, A., Sönksen, S., Wood, T., Hitchcock, C. & Galante, J. (2025). Mindfulness-Based Programmes for work performance: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. Stress and Health, 41(6). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/smi.70123.

Van Dam, N.T., Targett, J., Davies, J.N., Burger, A., & Galante, J. (2025). Incidence and predictors of meditation-related unusual experiences and adverse effects in a representative sample of meditators in the United States. Clinical Psychological Science. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/21677026241298269

Wiedemann, A., Gupta, R., Okey, C., Galante, J. & Jones, P. B. (2025). A systematic review of pre-pandemic resilience factors and mental health outcomes in adolescents and young adults during the COVID-19 pandemic. Development and Psychopathology, 1–14. DOI: 10.1017/S0954579424001901

2024

Connolly, M. L., Pascoe, M. C., Bowden, S. C., Amorim, A. B., Goonewardena, K. & Van Dam,
N. T. (2024). The mental health-related barriers and benefits to exercise in adults with and without chronic pain. International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, 24(2). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijchp.2024.100471

Davies, J. N., Faschinger, A., Galante, J. & Van Dam, N. T. (2024). Prevalence and 20-year trends in meditation, yoga, guided imagery and progressive relaxation use among US adults from 2002 to 2022. Scientific Reports, 14. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-64562-y

Friedrich, C,. Fairbairn, T., Denton, G., Geddes, M., Thomas-Carr, D., Jones, P.B. & Galante, J. (2024). Public involvement in an aggregate and individual participant data meta-analysis of mindfulness-based programmes for mental health promotion. Systematic Reviews, 13(212). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-024-02601-5

Galante, J., Montero-Marín, J., Vainre, M., Dufour, G., García-Campayo, J. & Jones, P. B. (2024). Altered states of consciousness caused by a mindfulness-based programme up to a year later: Results from a randomised controlled trial. PLOS ONE, 19(7). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0305928

Galante, J. & Van Dam, N.T. (2024). Mind the echo chamber: Mindfulness as a contemplative Practice that can contribute to public health. Mindfulness. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-024-02343-4

Jönhagen, E., Wood, T., Niemi, M. & Galante, J. (2024). Mindfulness teacher trainees’ experiences (MTTE): An investigation of intense experiences in mindfulness-based interventions. PLoS ONE, 19(4): e0301593. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0301593

Lee, W., McCaw, C. T. & Van Dam, N. T. (2024). Mindfulness in education: Critical debates and pragmatic considerations. British Educational Research Journal, 00, 1–20. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3998

Paradies, Y. & Cullan, J. (2024). From esotericism to embodied ritual: Care for Country as religious experience. Religions, 15(2), 182. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15020182

Vainre, M., Dalgleish, T., Watson, P., Haag, C., Dercon, Q., Galante, J. & Hitchcock, C. (2024). Work Engagement and Well-being Study (SWELL): A randomised controlled feasibility trial evaluating the effects of mindfulness versus light physical exercise at work. BMJ Mental Health, 27(1). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjment-2023-300885

Van Dam, N.T ., Targett, J., Burger, A., Davies, J. N. & Galante, J. (2024). Development and validation of the Inventory of Meditation Experiences (IME). Mindfulness. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-024-02384-9

Wright, M.J., Galante, J., Corneille, J.S., Grabovac, A., Ingram, D.M. & Sacchet, M.D. (2024). Altered states of consciousness are prevalent and insufficiently supported clinically: A population survey. Mindfulness, 15, 1162–1175. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-024-02356-z

2023

Cvetkovich, A., Dragojlovic, A., & Quinan, C. (2023). An Archive of Feelings @ 20: An interview with Ann Cvetkovich. Memory Studies, 16(1), 140–145. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/175069802211419

Daly, A. & McCaw, C. (2023). Between phenomenology and mindfulness: The role of presence in the clinical and therapeutic context. In S. Ferrarello &. C. Hadjioannou (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of phenomenology of mindfulness (1st ed., pp. 353-366). Routledge. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003350668

Davies, J. N., Colagiuri, B., Sharpe, L. & Day, M. A. (2023). Placebo effects contribute to brief online mindfulness interventions for chronic pain: Results from an online randomized sham-controlled trial. Pain, 164(10), 2273–2284. DOI: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002928

Day, M.A., Matthews, N., Davies, J., Walker, C., Bray, N., Kim, J. & Jensen, M.P. (2023). Outcome expectancies, effects, and mechanisms of brief training in mindfulness meditation vs. loving-kindness meditation vs a control condition for pain management: A randomized pilot study. Journal of Pain & Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy, 9 Jan, 1-11. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/15360288.2022.2141944

Dragojlovic, A. (2023). Affective silences: Violence, heteropatriarchy, intergenerationality. American Anthropologist, 00, 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.13920

Dragojlovic, A. & Broom, A. (2023). Bodies and suffering: Emotions and relations of care. Routledge. (Original work published 2017).

Dragojlovic, A., & Quinan, C. (2023). Queering and decolonising the museum: ‘In the Presence of Absence’ exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum. Memory Studies, 16(1), 161–165. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980221143708

Dragojlovic, A., & Quinan, C. (2023). Queering memory: Toward re-membering otherwise. Memory Studies, 16(1), 3–11. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980221141992

Dragojlovic, A. & Samuels, A. (2023). Introduction: Silent reverberations: Potentialities of attuned listening.” American Anthropologist, 00, 1–4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.13919

Galante, J., Friedrich, C., Collaboration of Mindfulness Trials (CoMinT), Dalgleish, T., Jones, P. B. & White, I. R. (2023). Systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials assessing mindfulness-based programs for mental health promotion. Nature Mental Health, 1, 462–476. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s44220-023-00081-5

Galante, J., Grabovac, A., Wright, M., Ingram, D. M., Van Dam, N. T., Sanguinetti, J. L., Sparby, T., van Lutterveld, R. & Sacchet, M. D. (2023). A framework for the empirical investigation of mindfulness meditative development. Mindfulness. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-023-02113-8

Ganesan, S., Moffat, B., Van Dam, N. T., Lorenzetti, V. & Zalesky, A. (2023). Meditation attenuates Default-mode activity: a pilot study using ultra-high field 7 Tesla MRI. Brain Research Bulletin. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0361923023001910

McCaw, C. T. (2023). Contemplative practices and teacher professional becoming. Educational Review. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00131911.2023.2215467

Powers, J., Ringapontsang, T. C. & Drongpa, R. D. (In press). A manual for making levees impregnable: Procedures for controlling and diverting water. Journal of the International Association for Buddhist Studies.

Powers, J. (2023). Resources for Bodhisattvas: The Bodhisattva-bhūmi. In R. Payne (Ed.), Oxford Encyclopedia of Buddhism. Oxford University Press.

Sarfraz, A., Siddiqui, S., Galante, J. & Sikander, S. (2023). Feasibility and acceptability of an online mindfulness-based intervention for stress reduction and psychological wellbeing of university students in Pakistan: A pilot randomized controlled trial. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(8), 5512. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20085512

Wagner, A.P., Galante, J., Dufour, G., Barton, G., Stochl, J., Vainre, M. & Jones, P. B. (2023). Cost-effectiveness of providing university students with a mindfulness-based intervention to reduce psychological distress: economic evaluation of a pragmatic randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open, 13. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-071724

Woods, T.J., Windt, J.M., Brown, L., Carter, O. & Van Dam, N. T. (2023). Subjective experiences of committed meditators across practices aiming for contentless states. Mindfulness. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-023-02145-0

2022

Bowles, N.I., Davies, J.N. & Van Dam, N.T. (2022). Dose–response relationship of reported lifetime meditation practice with mental health and wellbeing: A cross-sectional study. Mindfulness, 13, 2529–2546. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-022-01977-6

Galante, J., Friedrich, C., Dalgleish, T., White, I.R., Jones, P.B. (2022). Mindfulness-based programmes for mental health promotion in adults in non-clinical settings: protocol of an individual participant data meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. BMJ Open, 12, 58976. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-058976

Ganesan, S., Beyer, E., Moffat, B., Van Dam, N.T., Lorenzetti, V. & Zalesky, A. (2022). Focused attention meditation in healthy adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis of cross-sectional functional MRI studies. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 141(104846). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2022.104846

McCaw, C.T., Gerrard, J. (2022). Post-secular affective labours of teaching: contemplative practices and the ‘belaboured self’. Critical Studies in Education. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2022.2043404

McCaw, C.T. & Quay, J. (2022). Meditative inquiry in dialogue with Heideggerian, Deweyan, and Buddhist praxis. In A. Kumar (Ed.), Engaging with meditative inquiry in teaching, learning, and research: Realizing transformative potentials in diverse contexts (pp. 139-153). Routledge.

Powers, J. (2022). Can ultimate reality change? The Three Natures/Three Characters Doctrine in Indian Yogācāra literature and contemporary scholarship. SOPHIA. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11841-021-00860-6

Sexton, E.T.S., Sheehan, J., Van Dam, N.T., Grobler, A., Phillips, L., Yaari, M., Hiscock, H. (2022). Feasibility of the Early Minds Program by Smiling Mind: A pilot cluster-randomized-controlled trial. Mindfulness, 13, 409-429. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-021-01804-4

Vainre, M., Galante, J., Watson, P., Dalgleish, T., Hitchcock, C. (2022). Protocol for the Work Engagement and Well-being Study (SWELL): A randomised controlled feasibility trial evaluating the effects of mindfulness versus light physical exercise at work. BMJ Open, 12, e050951. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-050951

2021

Brown, L., Rando, A.A., Eichel, K., Van Dam, N.T., Celano, C.M., Huffman, J.C., Morris, M.E. (2021). The effects of mindfulness and meditation on vagally mediated heart rate variability: A meta-analysis. Psychosomatic Medicine, 83(6), 631-640. DOI: 10.1097/PSY.0000000000000900

Davies, J.N., Sharpe, L., Day, M.A., Colagiuri, B. (2021). Mindfulness-based analgesia or placebo effect? The development and evaluation of a sham mindfulness intervention for acute experimental pain. Psychosomatic Medicine, 83(6), 557-565. DOI: 10.1097/PSY.0000000000000886

Dragojlovic, A. (2021). Practising affect for haunted speakability: Triggering trauma through an interactive art project. History and Anthropology, 32(4), 426-441. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2021.1901287

Dragojlovic, A., Samuels, A. (2021). Tracing silences: Towards an anthropology of the unspoken and unspeakable. History and Anthropology, 32(4), 417-425. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2021.1954634

Galante, J., Friedrich, C., Dawson, A.F., Modrego-Alarcón, M., Gebbing, P., Delgado-Suárez, I., Gupta, R., Dean, L., Dalgleish, T., White, I.R., Jones, P.B. (2021). Mindfulness-based programmes for mental health promotion in adults in nonclinical settings: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. PLoS Medicine, 18, e1003481. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1003481

Galante, J., Stochl, J., Dufour, G., Vainre, M., Wagner, A.P., Jones, P.B. (2021). Effectiveness of providing university students with a mindfulness-based intervention to increase resilience to stress: 1-year follow-up of a pragmatic randomised controlled trial. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 75(2), 151-160. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2020-214390

McCaw, C.T. (2021). Liminality and the beginning teacher: Strangers, frauds and dancing in the disequilibrium. Cambridge Journal of Education, 51(3), 395-409. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/0305764X.2020.1844150

Padmanabham, S.S., Bilgrami, Z.R., Eisenlohr-Moul, T., Van Dam, N.T. (2021). Refinement and validation of the Balanced Inventory of Mindfulness-Related Skills (BIMS). Mindfulness, 12, 1208–1223. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-020-01590-5

Powers, J. (2021). The disputed middle ground: Tibetan Mādhyamikas on how to interpret Nāgārjuna and Candrakīrti. Religions, 12(11), 991. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/rel12110991

Williams, C.Y.K., Townson, A.T., Kapur, M., Ferreira, A.F., Nunn, R., Galante, J., Phillips, V., Gentry, S., Usher-Smith, J.A. (2021). Interventions to reduce social isolation and loneliness during COVID-19 physical distancing measures: A rapid systematic review. PLoS ONE, 16, e0247139. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0247139

2020

Bóo, S.J.M., Childs-Fegredo, J., Cooney, S., Datta, B., Dufour, G., Jones, P.B., Galante, J. (2020). A follow-up study to a randomised control trial to investigate the perceived impact of mindfulness on academic performance in university students. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 20(2), 286-301. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/capr.12282

Dawson, A.F., Brown, W.W., Anderson, J., Datta, B., Donald, J.N., Hong, K., Allan, S., Mole, T.B., Jones, P.B., Galante, J. (2020). Mindfulness-based interventions for university students: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, 12(2), 384-410. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/aphw.12188

Joyce, C. (2020). Responses to apocalypse: Early christianity and extinction rebellion. Religions, 11(8), 384. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/rel11080384

Lo Moro, G., Soneson, E., Jones, P.B., Galante, J. (2020). Establishing a theory-based multi-level approach for primary prevention of mental disorders in young people. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(24), 9445. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17249445

McCaw, C.T. (2020). Mindfulness ‘thick’ and ‘thin’— a critical review of the uses of mindfulness in education. Oxford Review of Education, 46(2), 257-278. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03054985.2019.1667759

Payne, J.R., Baell, O., Geddes, H., Fitzgibbon, B., Emonson, M., Hill, A.T., Van Dam, N.T., Humble, G., Fitzgerald, P.B., Bailey, N.W. (2020). Experienced meditators exhibit no differences to demographically matched controls in theta phase synchronization, P200, or P300 during an auditory oddball task. Mindfulness, 11, 643–659. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-019-01287-4

Shires, A., Sharpe, L., Davies, J.N., Newton-John, T.R.O. (2020). The efficacy of mindfulness-based interventions in acute pain: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Pain, 161(8):1698-1707. DOI: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001877

Turner, L., Galante, J., Vainre, M., Stochl, J., Dufour, G., Jones, P.B. (2020). Immune dysregulation among students exposed to exam stress and its mitigation by mindfulness training: findings from an exploratory randomised trial. Scientific Reports, 10(5812). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-62274-7

Van Dam, N.T. & Galante, J. (2020). Underestimating harm in mindfulness-based stress reduction. Psychological Medicine, 1-3. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S003329172000447X

Van Dam, N.T., van Vugt, M., Vago, D.R., Schmalzl, L., Saron, C.D., Olendzki, A., Meissner, T., Lazar, S.W., Gorchov, J., Fox, K.C.R., Field, B.A., Britton, W., Brefczynski-Lewis, J., Meyer, D.E. (2020). Letter to the Editor: Miscommunicating mindfulness. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 15(5), 1289-1290. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691620924057

Wang, M.Y., Freedman, G., Raj, K., Fitzgibbon, B.M., Sullivan, C., Tan, W.-L., Van Dam, N., Fitzgerald, P.B., Bailey, N.W. (2020). Mindfulness meditation alters neural activity underpinning working memory during tactile distraction. Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience, 20, 1216–1233. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-020-00828-y