@article{ref1,
title="Tracking the train of thought from the laboratory into everyday life: an experience-sampling study of mind wandering across controlled and ecological contexts",
journal="Psychonomic bulletin and review",
year="2009",
author="McVay, Jennifer C. and Kane, Michael J. and Kwapil, Thomas R.",
volume="16",
number="5",
pages="857-863",
abstract="In an experience-sampling study that bridged laboratory, ecological, and individual-differences approaches to mind-wandering research, 72 subjects completed an executive-control task with periodic thought probes (reported by McVay & Kane, 2009) and then carried PDAs for a week that signaled them eight times daily to report immediately whether their thoughts were off task. Subjects who reported more mind wandering during the laboratory task endorsed more mind-wandering experiences during everyday life (and were more likely to report worries as off-task thought content). We also conceptually replicated laboratory findings that mind wandering predicts task performance: Subjects rated their daily-life performance to be impaired when they reported off-task thoughts, with greatest impairment when subjects' mind wandering lacked metaconsciousness. The propensity to mind wander appears to be a stable cognitive characteristic and seems to predict performance difficulties in daily life, just as it does in the laboratory.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1069-9384",
doi="10.3758/PBR.16.5.857",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/PBR.16.5.857"
}