Though not a study directly of ethics or morality in behavior there is a
doctorate thesis that is empirical study of incident of 'support of nature' as
providential grace in life from spiritual awakening. But evidently cultural
upbringing has some lot to do with morality as expressed in
Some research on the effects of meditation on cognitive biases.
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0956797613503853
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0956797613503853
In the research reported here, we investigated the debiasing effect of
mindfulness meditation on the sunk-cost
Some research on meditations influence on Five Factors of Personality. Some
changes (not huge or transformational), particularly in reduced neurotic trains
(anxiety, etc) which make sense given other studies that show that meditation
tends to dampen activity of the Default Mode Network
Rick’s ethics article raises the question as to whether non-dual awakening
results in spontaneous perfected, ethical actions. Some teachers and
organizations have claimed this, or some variation of it, though there appears
little empirical or even anecdotal evidence supporting such claims.
