Supplementary file 2_From mental well-being to pro-environmental and distributive behavior? Evidence from a randomized mindfulness intervention.pdf

Introduction<p>This paper investigates whether mindfulness training can generate spillovers to socially relevant economic behavior, particularly in the domains of environmental protection and income distribution.</p>Methods<p>We conduct a randomized controlled trial among university students, offering an eight-week online mindfulness course and measuring outcomes using incentivized behavioral tasks and policy preference surveys.</p>Results<p>While the intervention successfully increases mindfulness, we find no robust evidence of causal effects on pro-environmental behavior, distribution choices, or related policy preferences, and only selective effects on the proposed mediating channels.</p>Discussion<p>These findings suggest that mindfulness interventions, especially in scalable online formats and voluntary settings, may have limited potential to influence behavior and preferences in these domains.</p>