People need to sustain focused attention to achieve goals. Yet, attention often lapses, as minds wander towards task-unrelated thoughts. The conventional way to study such shifts in attention is ...

Donald Trump's description of Greenland echoes a colonial pattern in which powerful states have dismissed sparsely populated land, ignoring Indigenous ties. It also echoed a long‑standing pattern by ...

Previous studies suggest that taking breaks from creative problem solving (i.e., incubation periods) enhances subsequent performance, possibly due to mind wandering during these breaks. The present ...