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The Middle Way: Finding the Balance between Mindfulness and Mind-Wandering 자세히보기
  • 자료유형학술지논문
  • 저자명Schooler, J.W.,Mrazek, M.D.,Franklin, M.S.,Baird, B.,Mooneyham, B.W.,Zedelius, C.,Broadway, J.M.
  • 학회/출판사/기관명unknown
  • 출판년도2014
  • 언어영어
  • 학술지명/학위논문주기PSYCHOLOGY OF LEARNING AND MOTIVATION
  • 발행사항Vol.60No.-[2014]_x000D_
  • ISBN/ISSN0079-7421
  • 소개/요약Mind-wandering is a common everyday experience in which attention becomes disengaged from the immediate external environment and focused on internal trains of thought. This chapter reviews progress in the study of mind-wandering and its manifold effects on cognition and affect. After summarizing key recent advances in the study of mind-wandering, we focus on three fundamentally practical questions: (1) What are the costs of mind-wandering for cognition and affect? (2) Is it possible to reduce mind-wandering with practices aimed at enhancing mindfulness? (3) What are some possible benefits of mind-wandering that may help to mitigate its costs? This chapter leads to the endorsement of a “middle way” approach to mind-wandering: though it may be useful to cultivate practices for overcoming some of mind-wandering's more disruptive consequences, we should not seek to eliminate it entirely, as it can offer some unique benefits when carried out at the appropriate times.