“Mind full or mindful” – can mere cognitive busyness lead to compliance similar to an emotional seesaw?

Figures & data

Table 1. Percentages of participants who vocalized doubts and signed the petition (%), and the mean index of correctly recalled pieces of information separately for the experimental and the control groups in experiments 1–2.

	Message Processing		Compliance		Information Recall
					EG		CG
Experiment	EG %	CG %	EG %	CG %	M	SD	M	SD
1	32	62	77	48	4.29	2.41	5.62	2.18
2	47	57	73	50	4.83	1.53	6.40	2.21

Note: EG = Experimental Group; Higher values indicate higher propensity to comment on the petition (Message Processing), sign the petition (Compliance), and to remember information concerning the petition(ist) (Information Recall: Pr score – mean of correctly recalled pieces of information minus false alarms).

Figure 1. Experiments 1–3: Logistic regression plots depicting the indirect effect of experimental group via self-reported inner focus on compliance separately for the experimental and the control group, with corresponding mean and distribution of the mediator at the bottom.

Figure 2. Experiment 1: Regression lines of the relation between cognitive busyness (high vs. low) and information recall at high, medium, and low (+1SD, mean, −1SD) sum scores of the Mindfulness Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS).