Distracted by your mind? Individual differences in distractibility predict mind wandering.

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition Distracted by Your Mind? Individual Differences in Distractibility Predict Mind Wandering

The effect of attention control on mind wandering

The purpose of this research is to investigate the effect of attention control on mind wandering. The method of this research was semi-experimental. The statistical population includes fifth and sixth grade female students of Semnan city in the academic year of 1400-1401. The number of 38 people from the statistical population was calculated as available, and in order to predict the drop of the...

Following the Wandering Mind in the Eyes: Tracking Distraction by the Self in a Complex Working Memory Task

Do you recognize the experience of being distracted by your own thoughts? Your answer is very likely to be ‘yes’. Indeed, a self-report study by Killingsworth and Gilbert (2010) has shown that people spent on average half of their daily activities on thought processes that distract them from their current task. This phenomenon is commonly known as mind-wandering and refers to a process of self-...

Modeling mind-wandering: a tool to better understand distraction

When we get distracted, we may engage in mind-wandering, or task-unrelated thinking, which impairs performance on cognitive tasks. Yet, we do not have cognitive models that make this process explicit. On the basis of both recent experiments that have started to investigate mind-wandering and introspective knowledge from for example meditators, we built a process model of distraction in the form...

Comparison of the marital attitude based on the severity of mind wandering in single students

The aim of this study was the comparison of the marital attitude based on the severity of mind wandering in single students. The research method was descriptive and causal-comparative. The statistical population consisted of all single students of Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch, in the academic year 2019-2020.100 people with mild mind wandering and 142 people with severe mind wa...