ArticleConsciousness and cognition2024
Further unpacking individual differences in mind wandering: The role of emotional valence and awareness.
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- Effects of emotional valence of mind wandering on sustained attention performance.Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition · 2025Pooled it
- Can participants authoritatively report on the emotional valence of their mind wandering?Cognition & emotion · 2026Article
- The two correlations between Academic Stress and Subjective Academic Achievement: the mediating roles of Emotion Regulation and Cognitive Decline, and the moderating role of Mind Wandering.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Further unpacking age-related differences in mind wandering: The roles of emotional valence and meta-awareness.Memory & cognition · 2025Article
- Who can strategically modulate mind wandering? A preregistered replication and extension of Seli et al. (2018).Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2025Article
- Mind wandering is not always harmful in sports: the role of its content.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
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Previous work has established a link between executive attention ability and mind wandering propensity, these studies typically collapse thought reports into a single category of task-unrelated thoughts (TUTs). We have shown that these TUTs can be differentiated by the emotional valence of their content. Awareness of TUTs might also be an important to consider, yet little work has been done on this front. The current study conceptually replicated and extended previous work by investigating the relationship between individual differences in executive attention, emotional valence and awareness of TUTs. Latent variable models indicated that Executive Attention was differentially correlated with emotional valence TUTs. However, only Attention Control was related to frequency of mind wandering with awareness. Intra-individual analyses indicated that negatively valenced TUTs and TUTs that occurred without awareness were associated with worse performance. Considering different dimensions of TUTs can provide a more complete picture of individual differences in mind wandering.
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