Mindfulness involves an intentional and non-judgemental attention or awareness of present-moment experiences. It can be cultivated by meditation practice or present as an inherent disposition or trait. Higher trait mindfulness has been associated with improved emotional skills, but evidence comes primarily from studies on emotion regulation. It remains unclear whether improvements extend to other aspects of emotional processing, namely the ability to recognize emotions in others. In the current study, 107 participants (M_age = 25.48 years) completed a measure of trait mindfulness, the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire, and two emotion recognition tasks. These tasks required participants to categorize emotions in facial expressions and in speech prosody (modulations of the tone of voice). They also completed an empathy questionnaire and attention tasks. We found that higher trait mindfulness was associated positively with cognitive empathy, but not with the ability to recognize emotions. In fact, Bayesian analyses provided substantial evidence for the null hypothesis, both for emotion recognition in faces and in speech. Moreover, no associations were observed between mindfulness and attention performance. These findings suggest that the positive effects of trait mindfulness on emotional processing do not extend to emotion recognition abilities.

正念涉及对当前时刻体验的有意和非判断性关注或意识。它可以通过冥想练习来培养，也可以表现为固有的性格或特质。特质正念与提高的情绪技巧有关，但证据主要来自对情绪调节的研究。尚不清楚改进是否扩展到情绪处理的其他方面，即识别他人情绪的能力。在本研究中，有107位参与者（_年龄[ M_年龄= 25.48岁]）完成了一项对特质正念的测量，“五面正念问卷”和两项情感识别任务。这些任务要求参与者将面部表情和言语韵律中的情绪进行分类（语音语调）。他们还完成了一个移情问卷和注意任务。我们发现，高级特质正念与认知同理心成正相关，但与识别情绪的能力不成正相关。实际上，贝叶斯分析为零假设提供了重要的证据，无论是面部还是言语中的情感识别。此外，在正念与注意力表现之间未发现关联。这些发现表明特质正念对情绪加工的积极影响并未扩展到情绪识别能力。