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PLOS ONE
Volume 7, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044423
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- Humanities and Social Sciences Fund of the Ministry of Education of P.R. China [10YJCXLX040]
- Zhejiang Provincial Social Sciences Foundation [11ZJQN076YB]
- Research Fund of Zhejiang Department of Education [Z200908972]
- Program for Innovative Research Team of Zhejiang Normal University [PIRT0809]
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Mind wandering has recently received extensive research because it reveals an important characteristic of our consciousness: conscious experience can arise internally and involuntarily. As the first attempt to examine mind wandering in a non-western population, the present study used experience-sampling method to collect the daily momentary mind wandering episodes in a Chinese sample. The results showed that mind wandering was also a ubiquitous experience among the Chinese population, and, instead of emerging out of nowhere, it was often elicited by external or internal cues. Furthermore, most of the mind wandering episodes involved prospective thinking and were closely related to one's personal life. Finally, the frequency of mind wandering was influenced by some contextual factors. These results taken together suggest that mind wandering plays an important role in helping people to maintain a continuous feeling of self and to prepare them to cope with the upcoming events.
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