concept

decentering

Also known as: de-centering, decentering mechanism

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Self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-transcendence (S-ART) frontiersin.org Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 12 facts

claimThe S-ART framework suggests that decentering and non-attachment play a significant role in practice effects and the development of meta-awareness.

referenceDecentering, also described as 'reperceiving' (Shapiro et al., 2006), is a therapeutic process that creates a space between perception and response, allowing an individual to disengage from immediate experience and adopt an observer perspective to analyze habitual patterns of emotion and behavior.

claimDecentering and non-attachment are psychological processes that support equanimity by decoupling the sensory and affective components of a stressor.

claimFunctional dynamics between self-networks may account for the decentering mechanism by which mindfulness training promotes flexibility of information processing between autobiographical and experiential awareness.

claimLaboratory studies have not yet identified biological correlates for the psychological constructs of decentering and non-attachment.

claimThe psychological processes of decentering and non-attachment reduce sympathetic tone and suppress hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis-mediated mobilization.

claimThe S-ART framework identifies intention and motivation, attention regulation, emotion regulation, extinction and reconsolidation, prosociality, non-attachment, and decentering as supporting neuropsychological mechanisms.

claimDecentering is a psychological process that supports disengagement and sensory clarity, facilitated by the perspective shift learned through the development of meta-awareness.

claimThe S-ART (Self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-transcendence) framework proposes six neurocognitive component mechanisms—intention and motivation, attention and emotion regulation, extinction and reconsolidation, prosociality, non-attachment, and de-centering—that are integrated and strengthened through intentional mental strategies to modulate networks of self-processing and reduce bias.

referenceThe S-ART (Self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-transcendence) framework identifies six component mechanisms underlying the practice and cultivation of mindfulness: intention and motivation, attention regulation, emotion regulation, memory extinction and reconsolidation, prosociality, and non-attachment and de-centering.

claimThe transition from novice to advanced meditation practitioner may be driven by the development of psychological processes such as non-attachment, de-centering, a non-conscious shift in affect-biased attention, and the development of meta-awareness.

claimDecentering is conceptually similar to the 'observing self' (Deikman, 1982; Fletcher and Hayes, 2005), the 'self-as-witness' (Damasio, 2010), and clinical constructs such as defusion or psychological distancing (Fletcher and Hayes, 2005; Ayduk and Kross, 2010).