A Wandering Mind Is an Unhappy Mind
Abstract
We developed a smartphone technology to sample people’s ongoing thoughts, feelings, and actions and found (i) that people are thinking about what is not happening almost as often as they are thinking about what is and (ii) found that doing so typically makes them unhappy.
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Science
Volume 330 • Issue 6006 • 12 November 2010
Pages: 932
History
Received: 18 May 2010
Accepted: 29 September 2010
Copyright
Copyright © 2010, American Association for the Advancement of Science.
