Mindful multitasking: The relationship between mindful flexibility and media multitasking

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1526-1532

  Ie, Amanda ^a   Haller, Chiara S ^a   Langer, Ellen J ^a   Courvoisier, Delphine S ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive flexibility; Creativity; Media multitasking; Mindful flexibility; Mindfulness; Task switching

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE FLEXIBILITY; CREATIVITY; MINDFUL FLEXIBILITY; MINDFULNESS; TASK SWITCHING;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

MULTITASKING;

EID: 84860301862     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2012.03.022     Document Type: Article

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