scholarly journals Where the eyes wander: The relationship between mind wandering and fixation allocation to visually salient and semantically informative static scene content

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (9) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Kristina Krasich ◽  
Greg Huffman ◽  
Myrthe Faber ◽  
James R. Brockmole
Keyword(s):  
Mind Wandering ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Scene Content

scholarly journals Is the relationship between mind wandering and attention culture-specific?

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 132-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Óscar F. Gonçalves ◽  
Gabriel Rêgo ◽  
Patrícia Oliveira-Silva ◽  
Jorge Leite ◽  
Sandra Carvalho ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mind Wandering ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between mind wandering and dangerous driving behavior among Chinese drivers

2015 ◽  
Vol 78 ◽  
pp. 41-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weina Qu ◽  
Yan Ge ◽  
Yuexin Xiong ◽  
Richard Carciofo ◽  
Wenguo Zhao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mind Wandering ◽  
Driving Behavior ◽  
Dangerous Driving ◽  
The Relationship

Students' mind wandering in macroscopic and submicroscopic textual narrations and its relationship with their reading comprehension

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 680-688 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sulaiman M. Al-Balushi ◽  
Ibrahim S. Al-Harthy
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Mind Wandering ◽  
The Other ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Computer Screen ◽  
Significant Negative Relationship ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Ninth Grade Students ◽  
The Relationship

The aim of the current study was to investigate students' mind wandering while reading different types of textual narrations (macroscopic and submicroscopic) in chemistry. Another goal was to determine the relationship between mind wandering and students' reading comprehension. The participants were 65 female ninth grade students in Oman. Using a computer screen, participants were required to read about sodium chloride. A probe-catch procedure was used to measure students' mind wandering. Half of the slides presented textual narrations at the macroscopic level and the other half presented narrations at the submicroscopic level. We gave the students a paper and pencil reading comprehension test at the conclusion of the reading task. The findings indicated that participants' mind wandering while reading submicroscopic textual narrations was significantly higher when compared to reading macroscopic textual narrations. Also, there was a significant negative relationship between mind wandering and reading comprehension for both macroscopic and submicroscopic textual narrations. Implications and future research are discussed.

The role of mindfulness and self-control in the relationship between mind-wandering and metacognition

2019 ◽  
Vol 141 ◽  
pp. 51-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuqin Deng ◽  
Bin Zhang ◽  
Xinyan Zheng ◽  
Ying Liu ◽  
Xiaochun Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mind Wandering ◽  
Self Control ◽  
The Relationship

Thinking Through Secrets: Rethinking the Role of Thought Suppression in Secrecy

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (10) ◽  
pp. 1411-1427 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael L. Slepian ◽  
Katharine H. Greenaway ◽  
E. J. Masicampo
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Mind Wandering ◽  
Common View ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Temporal Focus ◽  
Ironic Process ◽  
The Relationship

Having secrets on the mind is associated with lower well-being, and a common view of secrets is that people work to suppress and avoid them—but might people actually want to think about their secrets? Four studies examining more than 11,000 real-world secrets found that the answer depends on the importance of the secret: People generally seek to engage with thoughts of significant secrets and seek to suppress thoughts of trivial secrets. Inconsistent with an ironic process account, adopting the strategy to suppress thoughts of a secret was not related to a tendency to think about the secret. Instead, adopting the strategy to engage with thoughts of a secret was related the tendency to think about the secret. Moreover, the temporal focus of one’s thoughts moderated the relationship between mind-wandering to the secret and well-being, with a focus on the past exacerbating a harmful link. These results suggest that people do not universally seek to suppress their secrets; they also seek to engage with them, although not always effectively.

scholarly journals The Association of Motivation with Mind Wandering in Trait and State Levels

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toshikazu Kawagoe ◽  
Keiichi Onoda ◽  
Shuhei Yamaguchi
Keyword(s):  
Sustained Attention ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Experience Sampling ◽  
Experience Sampling Method ◽  
State Level ◽  
Mind Wandering ◽  
The State ◽  
Response Task ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
State Motivation

Mind wandering is a phenomenon in which attention drifts away from a given task towards task-unrelated thoughts. Recent studies have demonstrated that mind wandering occurs during tasks in which participants are demotivated. However, motivation ranges on a continuum from trait to state. We examined the association between trait/state motivation and trait/state mind wandering. We used common questionnaires and an experience sampling method through a sustained attention response task for measuring those indices. Through correlation analyses, we demonstrated an association between motivation and mind wandering within the same dimension (trait and state, respectively) but found no association across dimensions. Our results indicate that motivation in personality affects the occurrence of daily mind wandering, but not state mind wandering, which is affected by state motivation. Although the relationship between motivation and mind wandering is substantial, mind wandering at the state-level might be a more phasic phenomenon than expected, driven by a range of factors such as state motivation.

scholarly journals Mediating Role of Rumination and Negative Affect in the Effect of Mind-Wandering on Symptoms in Patients With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pengchong Wang ◽  
Wenwen Cao ◽  
Tao Chen ◽  
Jian Gao ◽  
Yifan Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Negative Affect ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder ◽  
Mind Wandering ◽  
Healthy Controls ◽  
Response Scale ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive Symptoms ◽  
Compulsive Disorder ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
The Relationship

To explore the relationship between negative affect, mind-wandering, rumination and obsessive-compulsive symptoms, 100 patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder and 100 healthy controls were assessed using the Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory, the Beck Anxiety Inventory, the Beck Depression Inventory, the Mind Wandering Scale and the Ruminative Response Scale. The results show that (i) patients diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder displayed higher obsessive-compulsive symptoms, negative affect, mind-wandering and rumination compared with healthy controls; (ii) negative affect, mind-wandering and rumination were positively correlated with the severity of obsessive-compulsive symptoms; (iii) mind-wandering predicted the severity of obsessive-compulsive symptoms (both directly and indirectly); (iv) rumination and negative affect mediated the relationship between mind-wandering and obsessive-compulsive symptoms. The results preliminarily reveal the relationship between mind-wandering and psychopathological obsessive-compulsive symptoms, providing a reference for exploring novel psychological treatments for obsessive-compulsive disorder.

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