The rising partisan animus between Democrats and Republicans has significant consequences for American society, both political and nonpolitical. The present study used two preregistered randomized controlled designs to investigate whether scalable meditation interventions could reduce affective polarization, relative to baseline scores measured 1 week earlier, in American adults (Study 1: N = 353; Study 2: N = 246) who affiliated with either the Democratic Party or the Republican Party. The results suggest that a brief befriending meditation can reduce affective polarization between Democrats and Republicans by increasing positive feelings relatively more for the political outgroup than the political ingroup.

民主党和共和党之间不断上升的党派敌意对美国社会产生了重大影响，无论是政治还是非政治。本研究使用两个预先注册的随机对照设计来调查可扩展的冥想干预是否可以减少情感极化，相对于 1 周前测量的基线分数，在美国成年人（研究 1：N = 353；研究 2：N = 246）中，他们隶属于无论是民主党还是共和党。结果表明，短暂的友好冥想可以减少民主党和共和党之间的情感极化，通过增加对政治外群体而不是政治内群体的积极情绪相对更多。