Tracking the train of thought from the laboratory into everyday life: An experience-sampling study of mind wandering across controlled and ecological contexts |
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Authors: | Jennifer C McVay Michael J Kane Thomas R Kwapil |
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Institution: | 1. Psychology Department, University of North Carolina, P.O. Box 26170, 27402-6170, Greensboro, NC
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Abstract: | In an experience-sampling study that bridged laboratory, ecological, and individual-differences approaches to mind-wandering
research, 72 subjects completed an executive-control task with periodic thought probes (reported by McVay & Kane, 2009) and
then carried PDAs for a week that signaled them eight times daily to report immediately whether their thoughts were off task.
Subjects who reported more mind wandering during the laboratory task endorsed more mind-wandering experiences during everyday
life (and were more likely to report worries as off-task thought content). We also conceptually replicated laboratory findings
that mind wandering predicts task performance: Subjects rated their daily-life performance to be impaired when they reported
off-task thoughts, with greatest impairment when subjects’ mind wandering lacked metaconsciousness. The propensity to mind
wander appears to be a stable cognitive characteristic and seems to predict performance difficulties in daily life, just as
it does in the laboratory |
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