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The research, by psychologists Matthew A. Killingsworth and Daniel T. Gilbert of Harvard University, is described this week in the journal Science. "A human mind is a wandering mind, and a wandering mind is an unhappy mind," Killingsworth and Gilbert write. "The ability to think about what is not happening is a cognitive achievement that ...
PDF A Wandering Mind Is an Unhappy Mind
A Wandering Mind Is an Unhappy Mind. Matthew A. Killingsworth* and Daniel T. Gilbert. Unlike other animals, human beings spend a lot of time thinking about what is not going on around them, contemplating events that happened in the past, might happen in the future, or will never happen at all. Indeed, "stimulus-independent thought " or ...
A Wandering Mind Is an Unhappy Mind
Laboratory experiments have revealed a great deal about the cognitive and neural bases of mind wandering (3-7), but little about its emotional consequences in everyday life.The most reliable method for investigating real-world emotion is experience sampling, which involves contacting people as they engage in their everyday activities and asking them to report their thoughts, feelings, and ...
Minding the details of mind wandering
Researchers first began examining mind wandering — or "task-unrelated images and thoughts" — in the late 1970s. Despite a noted difference between intentional and unintentional modes, the distinction had little impact on the field and consequently fell by the wayside. "Over the years, a number of different constructs have been unified ...
A Wandering Mind is an Unhappy One
According to the data from the Harvard group's study, the particular way you spend your day doesn't tell much about how happy you are. ... "a human mind is a wandering mind, and a wandering ...
A wandering mind is an unhappy mind
A wandering mind is an unhappy mind Science. 2010 Nov 12;330(6006):932. doi: 10.1126/science.1192439. Authors Matthew A ... 1 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. [email protected]; PMID: 21071660 DOI: 10.1126/science.1192439 Abstract We developed a smartphone technology to sample people's ongoing thoughts, feelings, and actions ...
Mind wandering is fine in some situations, Harvard-based study says
While most of the psychological literature calls mind wandering a detrimental "failure of executive control" or a "dysfunctional cognitive state," a new study led by Paul Seli, a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow working in the lab of Dan Schacter, suggests that in some cases there's no harm in it.
When Mind Wandering is a Strategy, Not a Disadvantage
In a study published in Psychological Science, postdoctoral fellow Paul Seli of Harvard Univeristy and colleagues Jonathan S. A. Carriere, Jeffrey D. Wammes, Evan F. Risko, Daniel L. Schacter, and Daniel Smilek found that people can adjust their rate of mind wandering during an attention-demanding task without decreasing their performance on ...
Wandering Mind Is a Sign of Unhappiness
They found that if someone's mind wandered at, say, 10 in the morning, then at 10:15 that person was likely to be less happy than at 10 , perhaps because of those stray thoughts. But if people ...
Mind is a frequent, but not happy, wanderer: People spend nearly half
"Mind-wandering appears ubiquitous across all activities," says Killingsworth, a doctoral student in psychology at Harvard. "This study shows that our mental lives are pervaded, to a remarkable ...
On the relationship between mind wandering and mindfulness
Mind wandering (MW) and mindfulness have both been reported to be vital moderators of psychological wellbeing. ... Our study is consequently limited by the fact that we only used the SART to ...
Does Mind-Wandering Make You Unhappy?
As it turns out, there is a strong relationship between mind-wandering now and being unhappy a short time later, consistent with the idea that mind-wandering is causing people to be unhappy. In contrast, there's no relationship between being unhappy now and mind-wandering a short time later. Mind-wandering precedes unhappiness but unhappiness ...
Wandering mind not a happy mind
"Mind-wandering appears ubiquitous across all activities," says Killingsworth, a doctoral student in psychology at Harvard. "This study shows that our mental lives are pervaded, to a remarkable degree, by the nonpresent." ... Harvard study, almost 80 years old, has proved that embracing community helps us live longer, and be happier 9 ...
Is a Wandering Mind an Unhappy Mind? The Affective Qualities of
Mind wandering has been a subject of scientific studies in psychology for over a decade (Fossa et al., 2018a; Smallwood & Schooler, 2006; Vannucci & Agnoli, 2019; Villena-González, 2019) and, during this time, has become one of the fastest growing topics within the cognitive sciences' branch of knowledge (Irving, 2016), as this period has even been considered to be the "era of mind ...
PDF A Wandering Mind Is an Unhappy Mind
Our analyses revealed three facts. First, people's minds wandered frequently, re-gardless of what they were doing. Mind wandering occurred in 46.9% of the samples and in at least 30% of the samples taken during every activity except making love. The frequency of mind wan-dering in our real-world sample was considerably higher than is ...
Wandering Mind Makes You Sad, Scientists Say: What Brings Happiness?
"A human mind is a wandering mind, and a wandering mind is an unhappy mind," concluded Matthew A. Killingsworth and Daniel T. Gilbert, the authors of the study, which was published in the Nov. 12 ...
The brain on silent: mind wandering, mindful awareness, and states of
Abstract. Mind wandering and mindfulness are often described as divergent mental states with opposing effects on cognitive performance and mental health. Spontaneous mind wandering is typically associated with self-reflective states that contribute to negative processing of the past, worrying/fantasizing about the future, and disruption of ...
New Science: Why Our Brains Spend 50% Of The Time Mind-Wandering
The debate about mind-wandering. On the depressing side of the debate, Matt Killingsworth's Track Your Happiness project concluded that mind-wandering makes us unhappy. His data showed that our ...
Wandering mind not a happy mind
"These traditions suggest that a wandering mind is an unhappy mind." This new research, the authors say, suggests that these traditions are right. Killingsworth and Gilbert's 2,250 subjects in this study ranged in age from 18 to 88, representing a wide range of socioeconomic backgrounds and occupations.
Why Mind Wandering Can Be So Miserable ...
In the last 15 years, the science of mind wandering has mushroomed as a topic of scholarly study, thanks in part to advances in brain imaging. But for a long time, it was still difficult to see ...
Minding the details of mind wandering
A new study sheds light on important differences between intentional and unintentional mind wandering. Minding the details of mind wandering — Harvard Gazette Findings
The Practical Benefits of a Wandering Mind
The researchers concluded that spontaneous thought associated with the mind-wandering state increases future-oriented thinking, which in turn helps to clarify and solidify our future goals ...
Addressing Mind Wandering in Video-Based Learning: A Comparative Study
Download Citation | On Sep 13, 2024, Daniel Ebbert and others published Addressing Mind Wandering in Video-Based Learning: A Comparative Study on the Impact of Interpolated Testing and Self ...
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The research, by psychologists Matthew A. Killingsworth and Daniel T. Gilbert of Harvard University, is described this week in the journal Science. "A human mind is a wandering mind, and a wandering mind is an unhappy mind," Killingsworth and Gilbert write. "The ability to think about what is not happening is a cognitive achievement that ...
A Wandering Mind Is an Unhappy Mind. Matthew A. Killingsworth* and Daniel T. Gilbert. Unlike other animals, human beings spend a lot of time thinking about what is not going on around them, contemplating events that happened in the past, might happen in the future, or will never happen at all. Indeed, "stimulus-independent thought " or ...
Laboratory experiments have revealed a great deal about the cognitive and neural bases of mind wandering (3-7), but little about its emotional consequences in everyday life.The most reliable method for investigating real-world emotion is experience sampling, which involves contacting people as they engage in their everyday activities and asking them to report their thoughts, feelings, and ...
Researchers first began examining mind wandering — or "task-unrelated images and thoughts" — in the late 1970s. Despite a noted difference between intentional and unintentional modes, the distinction had little impact on the field and consequently fell by the wayside. "Over the years, a number of different constructs have been unified ...
According to the data from the Harvard group's study, the particular way you spend your day doesn't tell much about how happy you are. ... "a human mind is a wandering mind, and a wandering ...
A wandering mind is an unhappy mind Science. 2010 Nov 12;330(6006):932. doi: 10.1126/science.1192439. Authors Matthew A ... 1 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. [email protected]; PMID: 21071660 DOI: 10.1126/science.1192439 Abstract We developed a smartphone technology to sample people's ongoing thoughts, feelings, and actions ...
While most of the psychological literature calls mind wandering a detrimental "failure of executive control" or a "dysfunctional cognitive state," a new study led by Paul Seli, a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow working in the lab of Dan Schacter, suggests that in some cases there's no harm in it.
In a study published in Psychological Science, postdoctoral fellow Paul Seli of Harvard Univeristy and colleagues Jonathan S. A. Carriere, Jeffrey D. Wammes, Evan F. Risko, Daniel L. Schacter, and Daniel Smilek found that people can adjust their rate of mind wandering during an attention-demanding task without decreasing their performance on ...
They found that if someone's mind wandered at, say, 10 in the morning, then at 10:15 that person was likely to be less happy than at 10 , perhaps because of those stray thoughts. But if people ...
"Mind-wandering appears ubiquitous across all activities," says Killingsworth, a doctoral student in psychology at Harvard. "This study shows that our mental lives are pervaded, to a remarkable ...
Mind wandering (MW) and mindfulness have both been reported to be vital moderators of psychological wellbeing. ... Our study is consequently limited by the fact that we only used the SART to ...
As it turns out, there is a strong relationship between mind-wandering now and being unhappy a short time later, consistent with the idea that mind-wandering is causing people to be unhappy. In contrast, there's no relationship between being unhappy now and mind-wandering a short time later. Mind-wandering precedes unhappiness but unhappiness ...
"Mind-wandering appears ubiquitous across all activities," says Killingsworth, a doctoral student in psychology at Harvard. "This study shows that our mental lives are pervaded, to a remarkable degree, by the nonpresent." ... Harvard study, almost 80 years old, has proved that embracing community helps us live longer, and be happier 9 ...
Mind wandering has been a subject of scientific studies in psychology for over a decade (Fossa et al., 2018a; Smallwood & Schooler, 2006; Vannucci & Agnoli, 2019; Villena-González, 2019) and, during this time, has become one of the fastest growing topics within the cognitive sciences' branch of knowledge (Irving, 2016), as this period has even been considered to be the "era of mind ...
Our analyses revealed three facts. First, people's minds wandered frequently, re-gardless of what they were doing. Mind wandering occurred in 46.9% of the samples and in at least 30% of the samples taken during every activity except making love. The frequency of mind wan-dering in our real-world sample was considerably higher than is ...
"A human mind is a wandering mind, and a wandering mind is an unhappy mind," concluded Matthew A. Killingsworth and Daniel T. Gilbert, the authors of the study, which was published in the Nov. 12 ...
Abstract. Mind wandering and mindfulness are often described as divergent mental states with opposing effects on cognitive performance and mental health. Spontaneous mind wandering is typically associated with self-reflective states that contribute to negative processing of the past, worrying/fantasizing about the future, and disruption of ...
The debate about mind-wandering. On the depressing side of the debate, Matt Killingsworth's Track Your Happiness project concluded that mind-wandering makes us unhappy. His data showed that our ...
"These traditions suggest that a wandering mind is an unhappy mind." This new research, the authors say, suggests that these traditions are right. Killingsworth and Gilbert's 2,250 subjects in this study ranged in age from 18 to 88, representing a wide range of socioeconomic backgrounds and occupations.
In the last 15 years, the science of mind wandering has mushroomed as a topic of scholarly study, thanks in part to advances in brain imaging. But for a long time, it was still difficult to see ...
A new study sheds light on important differences between intentional and unintentional mind wandering. Minding the details of mind wandering — Harvard Gazette Findings
The researchers concluded that spontaneous thought associated with the mind-wandering state increases future-oriented thinking, which in turn helps to clarify and solidify our future goals ...
Download Citation | On Sep 13, 2024, Daniel Ebbert and others published Addressing Mind Wandering in Video-Based Learning: A Comparative Study on the Impact of Interpolated Testing and Self ...