Fascinating look at death anxiety. Surprising findings which reflect that studied Tibetan Buddhist monks appear to demonstrate greater anxiety and fear around death than their Hindu and Christian counterparts. http://hwcdn.libsyn.com/p/7/9/8/7984c365f1a3a90d/Shaun_Nichols_on_Death_and_the_Self.mp3?c_id=8780281&expiration=1516629343&hwt=28c168b18364fd1bed006867c197b24f …
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Was it an interview methodology? Monastics will often try to answer questions in a way they think will benefit the person asking. Likely a lot of the "four reminders" if the interviewer isn't a Buddhist.
I was reading an old study the other day where senior meditators used their response to a Rorscharch test to teach Dharma, which made me chuckle. I say we ditch fMRI studies and just go back to 1980s psych methodology haha.