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The restless mind.
- J. Smallwood, J. Schooler
- Psychology, Medicine
- Psychological bulletin
- 1 November 2006
This article reviews the hypothesis that mind wandering can be integrated into executive models of attention. Evidence suggests that mind wandering shares many similarities with traditional notions… Expand
Experience sampling during fMRI reveals default network and executive system contributions to mind wandering
- K. Christoff, Alan M. Gordon, J. Smallwood, Rachelle Smith, J. Schooler
- Psychology, Medicine
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- 26 May 2009
Although mind wandering occupies a large proportion of our waking life, its neural basis and relation to ongoing behavior remain controversial. We report an fMRI study that used experience sampling… Expand
The science of mind wandering: empirically navigating the stream of consciousness.
- Jonathan Smallwood, J. Schooler
- Psychology, Medicine
- Annual review of psychology
- 5 January 2015
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 attention… Expand
Meta-awareness, perceptual decoupling and the wandering mind
- J. Schooler, J. Smallwood, K. Christoff, T. Handy, M. Sayette
- Psychology, Medicine
- Trends in Cognitive Sciences
- 1 July 2011
Mind wandering (i.e. engaging in cognitions unrelated to the current demands of the external environment) reflects the cyclic activity of two core processes: the capacity to disengage attention from… Expand
Thoughts beyond words : When language overshadows insight
- J. Schooler, S. Ohlsson, K. Brooks
- Psychology
- 31 July 1993
Four experiments examined whether verbalization can interfere with insight problem solving. In Experiment 1, Ss were interrupted during problem solving and asked either to verbalize their strategies… Expand
The Value of Believing in Free Will
- K. Vohs, J. Schooler
- Psychology, Medicine
- Psychological science
- 1 January 2008
Does moral behavior draw on a belief in free will? Two experiments examined whether inducing participants to believe that human behavior is predetermined would encourage cheating. In Experiment 1,… Expand
Inspired by Distraction
- Benjamin Baird, J. Smallwood, Michael D. Mrazek, J. Kam, M. Franklin, J. Schooler
- Psychology, Medicine
- Psychological science
- 31 August 2012
Although anecdotes that creative thoughts often arise when one is engaged in an unrelated train of thought date back thousands of years, empirical research has not yet investigated this potentially… Expand
Back to the future: Autobiographical planning and the functionality of mind-wandering
- Benjamin Baird, J. Smallwood, J. Schooler
- Psychology, Medicine
- Consciousness and Cognition
- 1 December 2011
Given that as much as half of human thought arises in a stimulus independent fashion, it would seem unlikely that such thoughts would play no functional role in our lives. However, evidence linking… Expand
Thinking too much: introspection can reduce the quality of preferences and decisions.
- T. Wilson, J. Schooler
- Psychology, Medicine
- Journal of personality and social psychology
- 1 February 1991
In Study 1, college students' preferences for different brands of strawberry jams were compared with experts' ratings of the jams. Students who analyzed why they felt the way they did agreed less… Expand
Re-representing consciousness: dissociations between experience and meta-consciousness
- J. Schooler
- Psychology, Medicine
- Trends in Cognitive Sciences
- 1 August 2002
A distinction is drawn between non-conscious (unexperienced), conscious (experienced), and meta-conscious (re-represented) mental processes. There is evidence for two types of dissociations between… Expand