Good thoughts, bad thoughts?: investigating the nature of the wandering mind and how to capture It
This dissertation aims at painting a balanced picture of the wandering mind’s nature, strengthening an adaptive view of the phenomenon of drifting thoughts. First, negative consequences of drifting thoughts will be contrasted with positive ones, and I further aim to bring both sides of the medal mor...
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| Dokumenttyp: | Book/Monograph Hochschulschrift |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Heidelberg
2020
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| DOI: | 10.11588/heidok.00028771 |
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| Online-Zugang: | Resolving-System: https://doi.org/10.11588/heidok.00028771 Resolving-System: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-287712 Langzeitarchivierung Nationalbibliothek: https://d-nb.info/1216332606/34 Verlag, kostenfrei: http://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/archiv/28771 
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| Verfasserangaben: | presented by Lena Steindorf ; advisor: Prof. Dr. Jan Rummel |
| Zusammenfassung: | This dissertation aims at painting a balanced picture of the wandering mind’s nature, strengthening an adaptive view of the phenomenon of drifting thoughts. First, negative consequences of drifting thoughts will be contrasted with positive ones, and I further aim to bring both sides of the medal more in line by focusing on thought-regulation processes. Previous insights will then be enriched by new contributions: I will introduce memory as a newly considered domain, which I found to benefit from mind-wandering processes. From a more methodological perspective and within the domains of creativity and problem-solving, I will not only take a look at possible further mind-wandering benefits, but also present a new research paradigm. This paradigm allows for the closer investigation of possibly thought-altering and intrusive effects of thought probes, the most widely applied mind-wandering assessment method. Thought probes ask participants about their current thoughts during a task and might thus modify the mind-wandering experience itself, thereby complicating the search for positive effects of the phenomenon. As such probes further rely on self-reports and thus contain a subjective component, I will finally report a review and validation study of eye-movement measures as objective mind-wandering indicators. Thus, this dissertation presents an investigation of the nature of the wandering mind as well as of subjective and objective thought-assessment methods. |
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| Beschreibung: | Online Resource |
| DOI: | 10.11588/heidok.00028771 |