Do Meditators Stress Less? Long-Term Meditators Differ in Affective but Not Autonomic Responses to an Acute Psychosocial Stressor

Although regular meditation practice is widely assumed to buffer responses to stress, direct evidence from long-term meditators remains limited. We compared 80 long-term mindfulness meditators and 68 meditation-naïve controls on affective and autonomic responses to an acute psychosocial stressor, a