In a study testing whether mindfulness decreases cognitive biases, respondents answered 22 standard cognitive bias questions to measure susceptibility to the endowment effect, overconfidence, mental accounting, anchoring, loss aversion, and 17 other biases, as well as the 14 questions of the Langer mindfulness survey (LMS), measuring the traits of novelty-seeking, novelty producing, and engagement. A portion of the respondents were randomly pre-assigned to a condition that induced mindfulness. On 19 of the 22 biases, those induced to be mindful were less likely to show the bias. They also scored higher on 11 of the 14 LMS questions. The method by which we induced mindfulness was unrelated to the context of the later questions, involving image comparisons and standard Langerian instructions to notice three new things. People can boost their decision-making abilities merely by increasing their mindfulness, with no need for meditation, psychological training, or statistical education.

在一项测试中，正念是否减少了认知偏见的调查中，受访者回答了22个标准的认知偏见问题，以衡量对effect赋效应，过度自信，心理核算，锚定，损失厌恶和其他17种偏见的敏感性，以及朗格正念的14个问题调查（LMS），衡量寻求新颖性，产生新颖性和参与度的特征。一部分受访者被随机分配到诱发正念的状态。在22个偏见中的19个中，被诱导保持正念的偏见的可能性较小。他们还在14个LMS问题中的11个中得分更高。我们引起正念的方法与后面问题的上下文无关，涉及图像比较和标准的郎格式指令以注意三个新事物。