Given that an effect size of d=. 4 is a good first estimate of the smallest effect size of interest
in psychological research, we already need over 50 participants for a simple comparison of …

Buddhist traditions first explored the concept of mindfulness in broad philosophic terms
unfamiliar to most modern readers. Nevertheless, mindfulness has spread rapidly in …

Being able to replicate scientific findings is crucial for scientific progress,,,,,,,,,,,,,–. We
replicate 21 systematically selected experimental studies in the social sciences published in …

Mindfulness interventions aim to foster greater attention to and awareness of present
moment experience. There has been a dramatic increase in randomized controlled trials …

What is boredom? We review environmental, attentional, and functional theories and
present a new model that describes boredom as an affective indicator of unsuccessful …

The past decade has seen a surge of research examining mind-wandering, but most of this
research has not considered the potential importance of distinguishing between intentional …

In recent years, there has been an enormous increase in the number of studies examining
mind wandering. Although participants' reports of mind wandering are often assumed to …

In this research, we showed that solitude generally has a deactivation effect on people's
affective experiences, decreasing both positive and negative high-arousal affects. In Study …

During the past two decades, mindfulness meditation has gone from being a fringe topic of
scientific investigation to being an occasional replacement for psychotherapy, tool of …

Functional stupidity can be catastrophic. It can cause organisational collapse, financial
meltdown and technical disaster. And there are countless, more everyday examples of …