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Attention Score in Context
| Title |
Unexpected benefits of deciding by mind wandering
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, January 2013
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00598 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Colleen E. Giblin, Carey K. Morewedge, Michael I. Norton |
| Abstract |
The mind wanders, even when people are attempting to make complex decisions. We suggest that mind wandering-allowing one's thoughts to wander until the "correct" choice comes to mind-can positively impact people's feelings about their decisions. We compare post-choice satisfaction from choices made by mind wandering to reason-based choices and randomly assigned outcomes. Participants chose a poster by mind wandering or deliberating, or were randomly assigned a poster. Whereas forecasters predicted that participants who chose by mind wandering would evaluate their outcome as inferior to participants who deliberated (Experiment 1), participants who used mind wandering as a decision strategy evaluated their choice just as positively as did participants who used deliberation (Experiment 2). In some cases, it appears that people can spare themselves the effort of deliberation and instead "decide by wind wandering," yet experience no decrease in satisfaction. |
X Demographics
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 43% |
| Mexico | 1 | 14% |
| Unknown | 3 | 43% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 7 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 57 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | 4% |
| Malaysia | 1 | 2% |
| Japan | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 53 | 93% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 22 | 39% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 6 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 6 | 11% |
| Researcher | 6 | 11% |
| Student > Master | 6 | 11% |
| Other | 6 | 11% |
| Unknown | 5 | 9% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 31 | 54% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 8 | 14% |
| Social Sciences | 3 | 5% |
| Linguistics | 2 | 4% |
| Neuroscience | 2 | 4% |
| Other | 3 | 5% |
| Unknown | 8 | 14% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 18. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 11 August 2019.
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#2,089,386
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Outputs from Frontiers in Psychology
#4,283
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#18,719
of 294,567 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Psychology
#184
of 967 outputs
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