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CellWell record HH-3217

A Wandering Mind Is an Unhappy Mind

Killingsworth MA, Gilbert DT

Science ยท 2010

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This large smartphone-sampling study found that people's minds wander nearly half of their waking hours and that mind-wandering was linked to lower momentary happiness, providing a rationale for present-moment attention training.

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