Tag: Mind-Wandering

  • Nation & World

    When wandering minds are just fine

    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.

    7 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Minding the details of mind wandering

    A new study sheds light on important differences between intentional and unintentional mind wandering.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Wandering mind not a happy mind

    People spend 46.9 percent of their waking hours thinking about something other than what they’re doing, and this mind wandering typically makes them unhappy, according to research by Harvard psychologists Matthew A. Killingsworth and Daniel T. Gilbert.

    3 minutes