Research

Mitchell Sanders is a Research Assistant II and Study Coordinator working under Dr. James Elliott in the META Lab at UC Santa Barbara. Research interests include mindfulness and meditation, attention, meaning-making, phenomenology, non ordinary cognitive and perceptual experiences, altered states of consciousness, and digital mental health. His work in the META Lab spans study coordination, participant recruitment and assessment, mixed-methods research, and the investigation of attentional and experiential processes across contemplative and altered-state contexts. His broader research interests center on how contemplative practice, digital environments, and psychologically significant experiences shape attention, self-regulation, meaning-making, and mental health.