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Is There a Positive Association between Working Memory Capacity and Mind Wandering in a Lab-based Breathing Task? A Close Replication of Levinson, Smallwood, and Davidson (2012) /
Is There a Positive Association between Working Memory Capacity and Mind Wandering in a Low-Demand Breathing Task? A Preregistered Replication of Levinson, Smallwood, and Davidson (2012)
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Description: Levinson, Smallwood, and Davidson (2012, Experiment 2) found that working memory capacity (WMC) correlated positively with mind-wandering propensity measured by thought probes in a breath-monitoring task, but was unassociated with the tendency to self-catch mind-wandering. Here, I sought to replicate the associations between mind-wandering and WMC in the Levinson et al. breath task. With data from a large sample of subjects and two measures of WMC, the data from the current study suggests that, if WMC correlates with probe-caught mind wandering, it is most likely negative. In addition, the evidence regarding self-caught mind wandering is consistent with Levinson et al. for the sum of self-caught responses, but when self-caught responses are considered in proportion to probe-caught mind wandering, modest evidence was found for a positive association with WMC.
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