Correction to: Effects of Brief Mindfulness Meditation and Compassion Meditation on Parochial Empathy and Prosocial Behavior Toward Ethnic Out-Group Members (Mindfulness, (2023), 10.1007/s12671-023-02100-z)

Abstract

In the published article, the author wishes to restate a paragraph under the second paragraph of the Exploratory Outcomes under the Results section. Here is the corrected version: In the first ANOVA model, the interactions between the training condition and these five variables were nonsignificant predictors of parochial empathy, p > 0.05. A second ANOVA-based moderation analysis evaluated whether the relation between training condition and support for Arab immigration depended on these variables. The effect of practicing compassion meditation compared to relaxation control training was different depending on participants’ trait empathic concern scores (b = 1.81, 95% CI [0.80, 2.82], p < 0.001), indicating that the effect of compassion training on support for Arab immigration was stronger among participants scoring higher in trait empathic concern. The effect of practicing mindfulness meditation compared to relaxation control training was different depending on participants’ past intergroup contact quality (b = -1.49, 95% CI [-2.43, -0.55], p = 0.002). Among relaxation participants, the quality of previous intergroup contact was positively associated with support for Arab immigration, but among mindfulness participants, previous contact was not related to support for Arab immigration. The other interaction terms were not significant, p > 0.05. Thus, this erratum is presented to fix the error. The original article has been corrected.