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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Mind Wandering"”.
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Mindfulness Meditation and Mind Wandering
Aasha I. Hoogland
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Mind wandering during everyday driving
Mind wandering is a common experience but its prevalence and consequences during routine activities such as driving are unclear. This thesis comprises five studies investigating how often drivers’ minds wander, and the relationship between mind wandering and crash risk. The first study was a …
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Differentiating states in mind wandering
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Identify Mind Wandering Behind the Wheel
… the influence of cognitive distraction, or mind wandering (Smallwood & Schooler, 2006), on driver performance has not been as closely studied. The current study used a self-report method to capture the moment-to-moment off-task thoughts, and investigated the influence of mind wandering on …
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The Relationship between Bilingualism, Cognitive Control, and Mind Wandering
… the tendency for bilinguals and monolinguals to mind wander, a phenomenon associated with poorer cognitive control performance. We hypothesized that bilinguals would demonstrate better performance than monolinguals on Operation Span, Numerical Stroop, SART, Color- Shape, and Letter Memory tasks, …
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How Mind Wandering Relates to Reading in a Second Language
Both language and mind wandering have been strongly linked to reading, however there remains very scarce literature on their intersection. For instance, there are very few existing studies evaluating mind wandering in the context of reading in a second language in children, and none to our …
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Emotion, Mood, and Mind Wandering: Laboratory and naturalistic studies with respect to mental health
… addition, much of waking life is spent mentally wandering, and furthering our understanding of mentation and mind wandering in mental health is of importance in conjunction with affect. Where the mind may go to at rest free from distraction may possess important insights into the nature of the …
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Where was my mind?: The role of perceptual load on mind wandering and consumer memory for advertising content
… relevant to the primary task by preventing one’s mind from wandering, which is known to consume a significant amount of cognitive resources when it occurs (Smallwood et al. 2003). As a result, mind wandering could lead to interference with the processing of an advertising message. This …
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The Role of Working Memory Resources in Mind Wandering: The Difference Between Working Memory Capacity and Working Memory Load
… between working memory resources and mind wandering. The purpose of the current study is to investigate whether mind wandering requires working memory resources to be sustained. The resource-demanding view is that mind wandering requires working memory resources to sustain an internal …
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How Epistemic Affects, Curiosity, and Personality Are Associated With Mind Wandering: Evidence from a Health-related Three-Armed Bandit Task
Objectives. This study investigated how mind wandering thoughts, and specifically the content of these thoughts, are associated with epistemic affects (i.e., epistemic emotions and epistemic feelings), trait curiosity, and personality in the context of an information search and comprehension task …
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Examining the Conjoint Impact of Depressive Symptomatology and Mind Wandering on Affective Dynamics in Response to Emotionally Salient Visual Stimuli
… between depressive symptomatology and mind wandering (i.e., thought content that is internally generated and unrelated to any immediate contextual stimuli), as several studies have reported robust positive associations between the frequency of mind wandering and the presence of …
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The Relationship Between Emotion-Related Thoughts and Emotional Recovery from Stress
… an association between negative affect and mind-wandering. Additionally, research has shown that enduring appraisals of a negative emotional stimulus and its meaning, or emotion-related thoughts, can prolong the duration of negative emotions. In this paper, we present four studies …
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Attention modes in consumer decision making: attending to the physical environment makes price more important
… one focuses on their immediate environment, to mind-wandering, where one focuses on environment-independent thoughts, feelings, and daydreams. The framework developed and tested in this research predicts how this spectrum of attention affects the relative weight consumers place on price …
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Essays on attention and creative thought
… as other non-rigid forms of thought, such as mind wandering, are both pervasive and important for our cognitive endeavors. The goal of my dissertation is to provide a theory of these non-rigid forms of thought by understanding some of the cognitive mechanisms that underlie them, as well as to …
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Wandering minds, restless brains and mindful thinking : a network-based perspective
… individual differences in working memory and mindfulness in relation to connectivity between the medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC). The DLPFC is a major component of the executive control network that increased in activation during tasks involving …
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Development and Implementation of a Brief Video-Based Mindful Movement Intervention Prior to Pelvic Exams to Reduce Pain Intensity and State Anxiety
Mindfulness interventions have demonstrated efficacy for numerous health related outcomes, and been implemented in medical settings to reduce pain and anxiety prior to exams, surgeries, or procedures. This broad investigation begins with a theoretical review exploring a proposed mechanism of …
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The Effects of Inducing Disbelief in Free Will on Subsequent Cognitive Performance
… involving self-regulation, response inhibition, mind-wandering, and working memory. Self-efficacy was hypothesized to mediate this relationship. Disbelief in free will was induced among participants by having them read passages from a book supporting the deterministic theory. Next, their …
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DIFFERENTIATING THE EFFECTS OF BRIEF LOVING-KINDNESS MEDITATION ON PROSOCIAL RESPONSES
… benefits than its components and active mind-wandering control, on levels of self-compassion and compassion for others, helping intentions and help-giving. One hundred and seventy participants were randomly assigned to one of the four conditions: LKM (self & other), LKM (self), LKM …
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Effects of a Brief Mindfulness Induction on Death-Related Anxiety
… to buffer effects of mortality salience. Mindfulness refers to a conscious awareness and acceptance of moment-to-moment experiences. By allowing individuals to take a regulated view of difficult situations, mindfulness may attenuate the negative effects of mortality salience. The present …
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