How pervasive is mind wandering, really?
| Autor: | Daniel L. Schacter, Jonathan M. Oakman, Paul Seli, James Allan Cheyne, Roger E. Beaty, Daniel Smilek |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Time Factors Psychometrics media_common.quotation_subject Ecological Momentary Assessment Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 050105 experimental psychology Thinking 03 medical and health sciences Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Mind-wandering Developmental and Educational Psychology Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Attention Simple (philosophy) media_common Interpretation (philosophy) 05 social sciences Task engagement Variable (computer science) Introspection Self Report Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Consciousness and cognition. 66 |
| ISSN: | 1090-2376 |
| Popis: | Recent claims that people spend 30-50% of their waking lives mind wandering (Killingsworth & Gilbert, 2010; Kane et al., 2007) have become widely accepted and frequently cited. While acknowledging attention to be inconstant and wavering, and mind wandering to be ubiquitous, we argue and present evidence that such simple quantitative estimates are misleading and potentially meaningless without serious qualification. Mind-wandering estimates requiring dichotomous judgments of inner experience rely on questionable assumptions about how such judgments are made, and the resulting data do not permit straightforward interpretation. We present evidence that estimates of daily-life mind wandering vary dramatically depending on the response options provided. Offering participants a range of options in estimating task engagement yielded variable mind-wandering estimates, from approximately 60% to 10%, depending on assumptions made about how observers make introspective judgments about their mind-wandering experiences and how they understand what it means to be on- or off-task. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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