The time has come to be mindwanderful: Mind wandering and the intuitive psychology mode.

Óscar F.  Gonçalves; Mariana Dias Da Silva-van Riel

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The time has come to be mindwanderful: Mind wandering and the intuitive psychology mode.

Óscar F. Gonçalves^*, Mariana Dias Da Silva-van Riel

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No matter how hard you try—pinching different parts of your body, slapping your face, or moving restlessly in your seat—you cannot prevent your mind from occasionally escaping from the present experience as you enter into a mental navigation mode. Sometimes spontaneously, others deliberately, your mind may move to a different time—you may see yourself running an experiment inspired by the chapter you just finished reading or you may imagine yourself on a quantum leap into the future as you fantasize about the delivery of your Nobel Prize acceptance speech. Your mind may move to a distinct space, for example, as you replay last weekend’s party or anticipate a most desirable date, and may even venture into the mind of another (e.g., as you embody the mind of the author you are currently reading). Our minds can accomplish all this mental navigation in fractions of a second, allowing us to see ourselves or even impersonate different people across space and time. While teleportation and time travel may never be physically possible, our wandering minds are indeed very accomplished “time machines” (Suddendorf T, Corballis MC, Behav Brain Sci 30(3), 2007).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Social and affective neuroscience of everyday human interaction
Subtitle of host publication	From theory to methodology
Editors	P Boggio, T S H Wingenbach, M L S Coelho, W E Comfort, L M Marques, M V C Alves
Chapter	9
Pages	145-160
Number of pages	15
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-031-08651-9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08651-9_9
Publication status	Published - 2022

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Gonçalves, Ó. F., & Dias Da Silva-van Riel, M. (2022). The time has come to be mindwanderful: Mind wandering and the intuitive psychology mode. . In P. Boggio, T. S. H. Wingenbach, M. L. S. Coelho, W. E. Comfort, L. M. Marques, & M. V. C. Alves (Eds.), Social and affective neuroscience of everyday human interaction: From theory to methodology (pp. 145-160) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08651-9_9

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Gonçalves, ÓF & Dias Da Silva-van Riel, M 2022, The time has come to be mindwanderful: Mind wandering and the intuitive psychology mode. . in P Boggio, TSH Wingenbach, MLS Coelho, WE Comfort, LM Marques & MVC Alves (eds), Social and affective neuroscience of everyday human interaction: From theory to methodology. pp. 145-160. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08651-9_9

The time has come to be mindwanderful: Mind wandering and the intuitive psychology mode. . / Gonçalves, Óscar F.; Dias Da Silva-van Riel, Mariana.
Social and affective neuroscience of everyday human interaction: From theory to methodology. ed. / P Boggio; T S H Wingenbach; M L S Coelho; W E Comfort; L M Marques; M V C Alves. 2022. p. 145-160.

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