Department of Psychology, Harvard University, William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA.
Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Psychon Bull Rev. 2017 Dec;24(6):1808-1818. doi: 10.3758/s13423-017-1249-0.
Researchers have recently demonstrated that mind-wandering episodes can vary on numerous dimensions, and it has been suggested that assessing these dimensions will play an important role in our understanding of mind wandering. One dimension that has received considerable attention in recent work is the intentionality of mind wandering. Although it has been claimed that indexing the intentionality of mind wandering will be necessary if researchers are to obtain a coherent understanding of the wandering mind, one concern is that this dimension might be redundant with another, longstanding, dimension: namely, meta-awareness. Thus, the utility of the argument for assessing intentionality rests upon a demonstration that this dimension is distinct from the meta-awareness dimension. To shed light on this issue, across two studies we compared and contrasted these dimensions to determine whether they are redundant or distinct. In both studies, we found support for the view that these dimensions are distinct.
研究人员最近表明，思维漫游的各个方面都有所不同，有人认为评估这些方面将在我们对思维漫游的理解中发挥重要作用。最近的研究中，受到广泛关注的一个方面是思维漫游的意向性。尽管有人声称，如果研究人员要对漫游的思维有一个连贯的理解，索引思维漫游的意向性将是必要的，但人们担心这个维度可能与另一个长期存在的维度——元意识——相重叠。因此，评估意向性的论点的有效性取决于是否证明这个维度与元意识维度不同。为了解决这个问题，我们在两项研究中对这些维度进行了比较和对比，以确定它们是否重叠或不同。在两项研究中，我们都支持这样一种观点，即这些维度是不同的。
