Which popular scientific books about research on meditation can we trust?

Last Updated on February 3, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org

Not Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body,

published in Great Britain as

The Science of Meditation: How to Change Your Brain, Mind and Body

a 2017 book

by science journalist

Daniel Goleman and

neuroscientist Richard Davidson

The book discusses research on meditation.

For the book, the authors conducted a literature review of over 6,000 scientific studies on meditation, and selected the 60 that they believed met the highest methodological standards.[2]

We still not trust it.