The social and emotional health of adolescents is increasingly a concern worldwide. To
date, there remains a lack of research on how school climate influences adolescents' …

Mind wandering refers to attention oriented away from a current task to thoughts unrelated to
the task, often resulting in poorer task performance. In adults, mind wandering is a common …

The slippery and unstable psychological landscapes and emotional geographies of
relationships in adolescence involve an ambiguous mixture of talking and listening with …

In four experiments, we investigated the impact of outcomes and processing mode (free
versus forced) on subsequent voluntary task-switching behavior. Participants freely chose …

Age-related differences in mind wandering are robust, with older adults reporting less mind
wandering compared to younger adults. While several theories have been put forth to …

There has been an increasing interest in uncovering the mechanisms underpinning how
people decide which task to perform at a given time. Many studies suggest that task …

Mind wandering occurs when attention becomes disengaged from the here-and-now and
directed toward internally generated thoughts; this is often associated with poorer …

Cognitive theory of boredom presumes that boredom, an important potential indicator for self-
dysregulation, represents to be the result of attention failure. And lapses of attention have …

Previous research has established that mind wandering does not necessarily disrupt one's
task-switching performance. Here we investigated the effects of mind wandering on …

Deciding which task to perform when multiple tasks are available can be influenced by
external influences in the environment. In the present study, we demonstrate that such …