Browsing Arts (Faculty of) by Supervisor "Smilek, Daniel"
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Beyond the emotional impact of dissonance: Inharmonic music elicits greater cognitive interference than does harmonic music
(University of Waterloo, 2016-04-29)The present research evaluates whether task-irrelevant inharmonic music produces greater interference with cognitive performance than task-irrelevant harmonic music. Participants completed either an auditory (Experiments ... -
Capturing Dynamic Fluctuations in Remembered Momentary Attentional States
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-11)States of attention such as engagement and mind-wandering fluctuate dynamically over time. Although aggregate retrospective reports of attention have been used in prior research, the full nature of people’s remembered ... -
Contrasting Mind-Wandering, (Dark) Flow, and Affect During Slot Machine Play and an Auditory Vigilance Task: Implications for Gambling to Escape
(University of Waterloo, 2020-07-31)Slot machines are a pervasive form of gambling in North America. In Experiment 1 and 2, we assessed gamblers for mindfulness, gambling problems, depressive symptoms, and boredom proneness. In Experiment 1, participants ... -
The Differential Influence of Strategy Selection and Implementation on Probability Matching in a Binary Prediction Task
(University of Waterloo, 2017-12-08)Probability Matching is a common and suboptimal strategy often used by participants in a Binary Prediction Task. A plethora of research has examined why participants engage in Probability Matching and also what factors ... -
Does Posture Influence the Stroop Effect ?
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-23)Rosenbaum, Mama, and Algom (2017, Psychological Science, 28, 1864-1867) reported that participants completing the Stroop task (i.e., name the hue of a colour word when the hue and word meaning are congruent or incongruent), ... -
How Reading Difficulty Influences Mind-Wandering: The Theoretical Importance of Measuring Interest
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-30)In many situations, increasing task difficulty decreases thoughts that are unrelated to the task (i.e., mind-wandering; see Smallwood & Schooler, 2006, for a review). However, Feng, D’Mello, and Graesser (2013) recently ... -
Investigating the relation between boredom and media multitasking
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-09)Media multitasking entails simultaneously engaging in multiple tasks when at least one of the tasks is based in media. Despite the abundance of research devoted to understanding the antecedents of media multitasking, little ... -
Loading… Loading… The Influence of Download Time on Information Search
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-22)When browsing online, there is considerable variation in the amount of time that one has to wait for content to appear once the link to that content has been activated (i.e., clicked). In two experiments we examined how ... -
Media multitasking and performance on attentionally demanding tasks
(University of Waterloo, 2017-07-31)This dissertation examined the behaviour of media multitasking, with a specific focus on three broad goals. The first goal, explored in Chapter 2, was to examine whether individual differences in the propensity to media ... -
Refining Flow: The Re-conceptualization And Measurement Of Flow As Deep Effortless Concentration
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-11)The work reported in this dissertation includes a series of studies that have the broad goal of understanding and encapsulating the experience of flow. In this chapter (Chapter 1), I have laid out the theoretical and ... -
The Relation Between Smartphone Use and Everyday Inattention
(University of Waterloo, 2017-04-28)In two studies, we explored the relation between subjective reports of smartphone use and eve-ryday inattention. We created two questionnaires that measured general smartphone use (i.e. how frequently people send and receive ... -
Restoration of sustained attention following virtual nature exposure: Undeniable or unreliable?
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-14)Building on previous research examining the influence of natural versus urban images on attention, the purpose of the present experiments was to examine attention restoration with (1) two large samples, (2) a broader image ...