The science of mind wandering: Empirically navigating the stream of consciousness

J Smallwood, JW Schooler - Annual review of psychology, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Conscious experience is fluid; it rarely remains on one topic for an extended period without
deviation. Its dynamic nature is illustrated by the experience of mind wandering, in which …

State authenticity as fit to environment: The implications of social identity for fit, authenticity, and self-segregation

T Schmader, C Sedikides - Personality and Social …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
People seek out situations that “fit,” but the concept of fit is not well understood. We introduce
S tate A uthenticity as F it to the E nvironment (SAFE), a conceptual framework for …

Mindfulness training improves working memory capacity and GRE performance while reducing mind wandering

MD Mrazek, MS Franklin, DT Phillips… - Psychological …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
Given that the ability to attend to a task without distraction underlies performance in a wide
variety of contexts, training one's ability to stay on task should result in a similarly broad …

Twenty years of stereotype threat research: A review of psychological mediators

CR Pennington, D Heim, AR Levy, DT Larkin - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
This systematic literature review appraises critically the mediating variables of stereotype
threat. A bibliographic search was conducted across electronic databases between 1995 …

[图书][B] Understanding how we learn: A visual guide

Y Weinstein, M Sumeracki, O Caviglioli - 2018 - taylorfrancis.com
Educational practice does not, for the most part, rely on research findings. Instead, there'sa
preference for relying on our intuitions about what's best for learning. But relying on intuition …

Meta-awareness, perceptual decoupling and the wandering mind

JW Schooler, J Smallwood, K Christoff… - Trends in cognitive …, 2011 - cell.com
Mind wandering (ie engaging in cognitions unrelated to the current demands of the external
environment) reflects the cyclic activity of two core processes: the capacity to disengage …

Mind-wandering, how do I measure thee with probes? Let me count the ways

Y Weinstein - Behavior research methods, 2018 - Springer
In the past decade, a new field has formed to investigate the concept of mind-wandering, or
task-unrelated thought. The state of mind-wandering is typically contrasted with being on …

The generalization of intergroup contact effects: Emerging research, policy relevance, and future directions

J Boin, M Rupar, S Graf, S Neji… - Journal of Social …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Intergroup contact is one of the most promising and effective strategies for reducing
prejudice. Importantly, intergroup contact not only improves attitudes towards an …

The benefits of simply observing: mindful attention modulates the link between motivation and behavior.

EK Papies, TM Pronk, M Keesman… - Journal of personality …, 2015 - psycnet.apa.org
Mindful attention, a central component of mindfulness meditation, can be conceived as
becoming aware of one's thoughts and experiences and being able to observe them as …

Testing the construct validity of competing measurement approaches to probed mind-wandering reports

MJ Kane, BA Smeekens, ME Meier, MS Welhaf… - Behavior Research …, 2021 - Springer
Psychology faces a measurement crisis, and mind-wandering research is not immune. The
present study explored the construct validity of probed mind-wandering reports (ie, reports of …