Disentangling decoupling: Comment on Smallwood (2013)

Psychological Bulletin

Volumn 139, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 536-541

  Franklin, Michael S ^a   Mrazek, Michael D ^a   Broadway, James M ^a   Schooler, Jonathan W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Meta awareness; Mind wandering; Perceptual decoupling; Self generated thought

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877138390     PISSN: 00332909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0030515     Document Type: Note

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