The validity of the online thought-probing procedure of mind wandering is not threatened by variations of probe rate and probe framing
- Publikationstyp:
- Zeitschriftenaufsatz
- Metadaten:
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- Autoren
- Anna-Lena Schubert
- Gidon T Frischkorn
- Jan Rummel
- Autoren-URL
- https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=fis-test-1&SrcAuth=WosAPI&KeyUT=WOS:000567022600006&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=WOS_CPL
- DOI
- 10.1007/s00426-019-01194-2
- eISSN
- 1430-2772
- Externe Identifier
- Clarivate Analytics Document Solution ID: NK9AX
- PubMed Identifier: 31049656
- ISSN
- 0340-0727
- Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung
- 7
- Zeitschrift
- PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH-PSYCHOLOGISCHE FORSCHUNG
- Paginierung
- 1846 - 1856
- Datum der Veröffentlichung
- 2020
- Status
- Published
- Titel
- The validity of the online thought-probing procedure of mind wandering is not threatened by variations of probe rate and probe framing
- Sub types
- Article
- Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
- 84
Datenquelle: Web of Science (Lite)
- Andere Metadatenquellen:
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- Autoren
- Anna-Lena Schubert
- Gidon T Frischkorn
- Jan Rummel
- DOI
- 10.1007/s00426-019-01194-2
- eISSN
- 1430-2772
- ISSN
- 0340-0727
- Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung
- 7
- Zeitschrift
- Psychological Research
- Sprache
- en
- Online publication date
- 2019
- Paginierung
- 1846 - 1856
- Datum der Veröffentlichung
- 2020
- Status
- Published
- Herausgeber
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC
- Herausgeber URL
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00426-019-01194-2
- Datum der Datenerfassung
- 2020
- Titel
- The validity of the online thought-probing procedure of mind wandering is not threatened by variations of probe rate and probe framing
- Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
- 84
Datenquelle: Crossref
- Abstract
- Recently, there has been a surge of interest in the measurement of mind wandering during ongoing tasks. The frequently used online thought-probing procedure (OTPP), in which individuals are probed on whether their thoughts are on-task or not while performing an ongoing task, has repeatedly been criticized, because variations in the frequency of thought probes and the order in which on-task and off-task thoughts are referred to have been shown to affect mind-wandering rates. Hitherto, it is unclear whether this susceptibility to measurement variation only affects mean response rates in probe-caught mind wandering or poses an actual threat to the validity of the OTPP, endangering the replicability and generalizability of study results. Here, we show in a sample of 177 students that variations of the frequency or framing of thought probes do not affect the validity of the OTPP. While we found that more frequent thought probing reduced the rate of probe-caught mind wandering, we did not replicate the effect that mind wandering is more likely to be reported when off-task thoughts are referred to first rather than second. Crucially, associations between probe-caught mind wandering and task performance, as well as associations between probe-caught mind wandering and covariates (trait mind wandering, reaction-time variability in the metronome-response task, and working-memory capacity) did not change with variations of the probing procedure. Therefore, it seems unlikely that the great heterogeneity in the way the OTPP is implemented across different studies endangers the replicability and generalizability of study results. Data and analysis code are available at https://osf.io/7w8bm/ .
- Addresses
- Institute of Psychology, Heidelberg University, Hauptstrasse 47-51, 69117, Heidelberg, Germany. anna-lena.schubert@psychologie.uni-heidelberg.de.
- Autoren
- Anna-Lena Schubert
- Gidon T Frischkorn
- Jan Rummel
- DOI
- 10.1007/s00426-019-01194-2
- eISSN
- 1430-2772
- Externe Identifier
- PubMed Identifier: 31049656
- Funding acknowledgements
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft: Excellence initiative
- Open access
- false
- ISSN
- 0340-0727
- Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung
- 7
- Zeitschrift
- Psychological research
- Schlüsselwörter
- Humans
- Reproducibility of Results
- Cognition
- Memory, Short-Term
- Thinking
- Task Performance and Analysis
- Attention
- Reaction Time
- Students
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Female
- Male
- Young Adult
- Wandering Behavior
- Sprache
- eng
- Medium
- Print-Electronic
- Online publication date
- 2019
- Paginierung
- 1846 - 1856
- Datum der Veröffentlichung
- 2020
- Status
- Published
- Datum der Datenerfassung
- 2019
- Titel
- The validity of the online thought-probing procedure of mind wandering is not threatened by variations of probe rate and probe framing.
- Sub types
- Journal Article
- Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
- 84
Datenquelle: Europe PubMed Central
- Abstract
- Recently, there has been a surge of interest in the measurement of mind wandering during ongoing tasks. The frequently used online thought-probing procedure (OTPP), in which individuals are probed on whether their thoughts are on-task or not while performing an ongoing task, has repeatedly been criticized, because variations in the frequency of thought probes and the order in which on-task and off-task thoughts are referred to have been shown to affect mind-wandering rates. Hitherto, it is unclear whether this susceptibility to measurement variation only affects mean response rates in probe-caught mind wandering or poses an actual threat to the validity of the OTPP, endangering the replicability and generalizability of study results. Here, we show in a sample of 177 students that variations of the frequency or framing of thought probes do not affect the validity of the OTPP. While we found that more frequent thought probing reduced the rate of probe-caught mind wandering, we did not replicate the effect that mind wandering is more likely to be reported when off-task thoughts are referred to first rather than second. Crucially, associations between probe-caught mind wandering and task performance, as well as associations between probe-caught mind wandering and covariates (trait mind wandering, reaction-time variability in the metronome-response task, and working-memory capacity) did not change with variations of the probing procedure. Therefore, it seems unlikely that the great heterogeneity in the way the OTPP is implemented across different studies endangers the replicability and generalizability of study results. Data and analysis code are available at https://osf.io/7w8bm/ .
- Date of acceptance
- 2019
- Autoren
- Anna-Lena Schubert
- Gidon T Frischkorn
- Jan Rummel
- Autoren-URL
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31049656
- DOI
- 10.1007/s00426-019-01194-2
- eISSN
- 1430-2772
- Funding acknowledgements
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft: Excellence initiative
- Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung
- 7
- Zeitschrift
- Psychol Res
- Schlüsselwörter
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Attention
- Cognition
- Female
- Humans
- Male
- Memory, Short-Term
- Reaction Time
- Reproducibility of Results
- Students
- Task Performance and Analysis
- Thinking
- Wandering Behavior
- Young Adult
- Sprache
- eng
- Country
- Germany
- Paginierung
- 1846 - 1856
- PII
- 10.1007/s00426-019-01194-2
- Datum der Veröffentlichung
- 2020
- Status
- Published
- Datum, an dem der Datensatz öffentlich gemacht wurde
- 2021
- Titel
- The validity of the online thought-probing procedure of mind wandering is not threatened by variations of probe rate and probe framing.
- Sub types
- Journal Article
- Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
- 84
Datenquelle: PubMed
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