• DOI:10.1016/j.concog.2007.04.008
Corpus ID: 15639587

Everyday attention lapses and memory failures: The affective consequences of mindlessness

@article{Carriere2008EverydayAL,
  title={Everyday attention lapses and memory failures: The affective consequences of mindlessness},
  author={Jonathan S. A. Carriere and J. Cheyne and D. Smilek},
  journal={Consciousness and Cognition},
  year={2008},
  volume={17},
  pages={835-847}
}

Jonathan S. A. Carriere, J. Cheyne, D. Smilek

Published 2008

Psychology, Medicine

Consciousness and Cognition

We examined the affective consequences of everyday attention lapses and memory failures. Significant associations were found between self-report measures of attention lapses (MAAS-LO), attention-related cognitive errors (ARCES), and memory failures (MFS), on the one hand, and boredom (BPS) and depression (BDI-II), on the other. Regression analyses confirmed previous findings that the ARCES partially mediates the relation between the MAAS-LO and MFS. Further regression analyses also indicated… CONTINUE READING

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