With this literature review, we provide a systematic overview on and working definition of
mental labor in the context of unpaid work—an inherent cognitive component of daily …

The ability to imagine and simulate events that may happen in the future has been studied in
several related but independent research areas (eg, episodic future thinking, mind …

The concept of secrecy calls to mind a dyadic interaction: one person hiding a secret from
another during a conversation or social interaction. The current work, however …

Secrecy is a common and consequential human experience, and yet the literature lacks an
integrative theoretical model that captures this broad experience. Whereas initial research …

Previous research on voluntary mental time travel (ie, deliberately thinking about the past or
future) has resulted in negative age effects. In contrast, studies on spontaneous past …

Much has been written about the liabilities of mind wandering in the workplace. Given its
prevalence, however, mind wandering may carry underappreciated benefits—especially …

Although it is widely recognized that the human mind is prone to wander, some lines of
research suggest that this tendency is costly and unfortunate, whereas others suggest that …

Recent research suggests that sleepiness and mind-wandering—the experience of thoughts
that are both stimulus-independent and task-unrelated—frequently co-occur and are both …

How does confiding secrets relate to well-being? The current work presents the first
empirical examination of mechanisms by which confiding diverse real-world secrets to …

Mind-wandering and daydreams (ie, spontaneous thoughts that are both task-unrelated and
decoupled from current sensory perceptions) have recently become the object of increased …