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View article: Building a construct-valid battery of performance and self-report indicators of sustained attention consistency
Building a construct-valid battery of performance and self-report indicators of sustained attention consistency Open
View article: Connecting working and long-term memory: Bayesian-hierarchical multinomial model-based analyses reveal storage next to retrieval differences
Connecting working and long-term memory: Bayesian-hierarchical multinomial model-based analyses reveal storage next to retrieval differences Open
View article: A “Goldilocks zone” for mind-wandering reports? A secondary data analysis of how few thought probes are enough for reliable and valid measurement
A “Goldilocks zone” for mind-wandering reports? A secondary data analysis of how few thought probes are enough for reliable and valid measurement Open
View article: Decision letter for "That's a Lot to Process! Pitfalls of Popular Path Models"
Decision letter for "That's a Lot to Process! Pitfalls of Popular Path Models" Open
More and more psychological researchers have come to appreciate the perils of common but poorly justified research practices, and are rethinking commonly held standards for evaluating research.As this methodological reform expresses itself…
View article: Review for "That's a Lot to Process! Pitfalls of Popular Path Models"
Review for "That's a Lot to Process! Pitfalls of Popular Path Models" Open
More and more psychological researchers have come to appreciate the perils of common but poorly justified research practices, and are rethinking commonly held standards for evaluating research.As this methodological reform expresses itself…
View article: Correction to: Testing the construct validity of competing measurement approaches to probed mind-wandering reports
Correction to: Testing the construct validity of competing measurement approaches to probed mind-wandering reports Open
View article: A "Goldilocks zone" for mind wandering reports? A secondary analysis of how few thought probes are enough for reliable and valid measurement
A "Goldilocks zone" for mind wandering reports? A secondary analysis of how few thought probes are enough for reliable and valid measurement Open
Mind wandering assessment relies heavily on the thought probe technique as a reliable and valid method to assess momentary task-unrelated thought (TUT), but there is little guidance available to help researchers decide how many probes to i…
View article: Examining the relations among working memory capacity, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder symptomology, and conscious experience
Examining the relations among working memory capacity, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder symptomology, and conscious experience Open
Van den Driessche et al. (2017) found that children and young adults with more Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) symptoms report more mind blanking than those with fewer ADHD symptoms and that non-medicated children with ADHD…
View article: Testing the construct validity of competing measurement approaches to probed mind-wandering reports
Testing the construct validity of competing measurement approaches to probed mind-wandering reports Open
View article: Testing the attention-distractibility trait
Testing the attention-distractibility trait Open
View article: Testing the construct validity of competing measurement approaches to probed mind-wandering reports
Testing the construct validity of competing measurement approaches to probed mind-wandering reports Open
Psychology faces a measurement crisis, and mind-wandering research is not immune. The present study explored the construct validity of probed mind-wandering reports (i.e., reports of task-unrelated thought [TUT]) with a combined experiment…
View article: Testing the construct validity of competing measurement approaches to probed mind-wandering reports
Testing the construct validity of competing measurement approaches to probed mind-wandering reports Open
Psychology faces a measurement crisis, and mind-wandering research is not immune. The present study explored the construct validity of probed mind-wandering reports (i.e., reports of task-unrelated thought [TUT]) with a combined experiment…
View article: Advancing the understanding of individual differences in attentional control: Theoretical, methodological, and analytical considerations
Advancing the understanding of individual differences in attentional control: Theoretical, methodological, and analytical considerations Open
Attentional control as an ability to regulate information processing during goal-directed behavior is critical to many theories of human cognition and thought to predict a large range of everyday behaviors. However, in recent years, failur…
View article: The Worst Performance Rule, or the Not-Best Performance Rule? Latent-Variable Analyses of Working Memory Capacity, Mind-Wandering Propensity, and Reaction Time
The Worst Performance Rule, or the Not-Best Performance Rule? Latent-Variable Analyses of Working Memory Capacity, Mind-Wandering Propensity, and Reaction Time Open
The worst performance rule (WPR) is a robust empirical finding reflecting that people’s worst task performance shows numerically stronger correlations with cognitive ability than their average or best performance. However, recent meta-anal…
View article: Fixation, Flexibility, and Creativity: The Dynamics of Mind Wandering
Fixation, Flexibility, and Creativity: The Dynamics of Mind Wandering Open
Mind-wandering research is long on results and short on theory. One notable exception to this is the Dynamic Framework of mind wandering (Christoff et al., 2016; Girn et al., 2020; Mills et al., 2018), a theoretical framework that characte…
View article: Testing the Attention-Distractibility Trait
Testing the Attention-Distractibility Trait Open
Forster and Lavie (2014, 2016) found that task-irrelevant distraction correlated positively with a measure of mind-wandering and a report of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) symptomology. Based primarily on these results, Fo…
View article: An individual differences investigation of the relations among life event stress, working memory capacity, and mind wandering: A preregistered replication-extension study
An individual differences investigation of the relations among life event stress, working memory capacity, and mind wandering: A preregistered replication-extension study Open
View article: Worst performance rule, or not-best performance rule?
Worst performance rule, or not-best performance rule? Open
The worst performance rule (WPR) is a robust empirical finding reflecting that people’s worst task performance shows stronger relations to cognitive ability compared to their average or best performance. However, recent meta-analytic work …
View article: An Individual Differences Investigation of the Relations Among Life Event Stress, Working Memory Capacity, and Mind Wandering: A Replication-Extension Study
An Individual Differences Investigation of the Relations Among Life Event Stress, Working Memory Capacity, and Mind Wandering: A Replication-Extension Study Open
Klein and Boals (2001, Experiments 1 and 2) found that working memory capacity correlated negatively with perceived negative life event stress and speculated the relation may be driven by thoughts produced from these experiences. Here, we …
View article: An exploratory analysis of individual differences in mind wandering content and consistency.
An exploratory analysis of individual differences in mind wandering content and consistency. Open
We conducted an exploratory study of adult individual differences in the contents of mind-wandering experiences and in the moment-to-moment consistency of that off-task thought content within tasks. This secondary analysis of a published d…
View article: Is There a Positive Association between Working Memory Capacity and Mind Wandering in a Lab-based Breathing Task? A Close Replication of Levinson, Smallwood, and Davidson (2012)
Is There a Positive Association between Working Memory Capacity and Mind Wandering in a Lab-based Breathing Task? A Close Replication of Levinson, Smallwood, and Davidson (2012) Open
View article: Peer-Review Guidelines Promoting Replicability and Transparency in Psychological Science
Peer-Review Guidelines Promoting Replicability and Transparency in Psychological Science Open
More and more psychological researchers have come to appreciate the perils of common but poorly justified research practices and are rethinking commonly held standards for evaluating research. As this methodological reform expresses itself…
View article: An Exploratory Analysis of Individual Differences in Mind Wandering Content and Consistency
An Exploratory Analysis of Individual Differences in Mind Wandering Content and Consistency Open
We conducted an exploratory study of adult individual differences in the contents of mind-wandering experiences and in the moment-to-moment consistency of that off-task thought content within tasks. This secondary analysis of a published d…
View article: Is There a Positive Association between Working Memory Capacity and Mind Wandering in a Low-Demand Breathing Task? A Preregistered Replication of Levinson, Smallwood, and Davidson (2012)
Is There a Positive Association between Working Memory Capacity and Mind Wandering in a Low-Demand Breathing Task? A Preregistered Replication of Levinson, Smallwood, and Davidson (2012) Open
Levinson, Smallwood, and Davidson (2012, Experiment 2) found that working memory capacity (WMC) correlated positively with mind-wandering propensity measured by thought probes in a breath-monitoring task, but was unassociated with the tend…
View article: Can Research Participants Comment Authoritatively on the Validity of Their Self-Reports of Mind Wandering and Task Engagement? A Replication and Extension of Seli, Jonker, Cheyne, Cortes, and Smilek
Can Research Participants Comment Authoritatively on the Validity of Their Self-Reports of Mind Wandering and Task Engagement? A Replication and Extension of Seli, Jonker, Cheyne, Cortes, and Smilek Open
Seli, Jonker, Cheyne, Cortes, and Smilek (2015) found that, through retrospective confidence reports, subjects can distinguish the validity of their mind wandering reports during a sustained attention (“metronome response”) task. In additi…
View article: Can Research Participants Comment Authoritatively on the Validity of Their Self-Reports of Mind Wandering and Task Engagement? A Replication and Extension of Seli, Jonker, Cheyne, Cortes, and Smilek
Can Research Participants Comment Authoritatively on the Validity of Their Self-Reports of Mind Wandering and Task Engagement? A Replication and Extension of Seli, Jonker, Cheyne, Cortes, and Smilek Open
Seli, Jonker, Cheyne, Cortes, and Smilek (2015) found that, through retrospective confidence reports, subjects can distinguish the validity of their mind wandering reports during a sustained attention (“metronome response”) task. In additi…
View article: For Whom the Mind Wanders, and When, Varies Across Laboratory and Daily-Life Settings
For Whom the Mind Wanders, and When, Varies Across Laboratory and Daily-Life Settings Open
Undergraduates ( N = 274) participated in a weeklong daily-life experience-sampling study of mind wandering after being assessed in the lab for executive-control abilities (working memory capacity; attention-restraint ability; attention-co…
View article: Working memory capacity and the antisaccade task: A microanalytic–macroanalytic investigation of individual differences in goal activation and maintenance.
Working memory capacity and the antisaccade task: A microanalytic–macroanalytic investigation of individual differences in goal activation and maintenance. Open
The association between working memory capacity (WMC) and the antisaccade task, which requires subjects to move their eyes and attention away from a strong visual cue, supports the claim that WMC is partially an attentional construct (Kane…
View article: Individual differences in the executive control of attention, memory, and thought, and their associations with schizotypy.
Individual differences in the executive control of attention, memory, and thought, and their associations with schizotypy. Open
A large correlational study took a latent-variable approach to the generality of executive control by testing the individual-differences structure of executive-attention capabilities and assessing their prediction of schizotypy, a multidim…
View article: Carving executive control at its joints: Working memory capacity predicts stimulus–stimulus, but not stimulus–response, conflict.
Carving executive control at its joints: Working memory capacity predicts stimulus–stimulus, but not stimulus–response, conflict. Open
Three experiments examined the relation between working memory capacity (WMC) and 2 different forms of cognitive conflict: stimulus-stimulus (S-S) and stimulus-response (S-R) interference. Our goal was to test whether WMC's relation to con…