Thought Studies

Process of Thought

Thought Studies links tagged Process of Thought.

  1. Motivating meta-awareness of mind wandering: A way to catch the mind in flight? Paper: 2015Posted:
    MetacognitionProcess of ThoughtAttention
    Summary: This study examines whether financial incentives can increase meta-awareness of mind wandering, addressing the challenge that people rarely notice their own task-unrelated thoughts. The findings inform understanding of metacognitive processes and attention regulation.
  2. Updating, Evidence Evaluation, and Operator Availability: A Theoretical Framework for Understanding Belief Paper: June 3, 2022Posted:
    Cognitive Bias & Motivated ReasoningBelief Formation & Belief RevisionProcess of Thought
    Summary: This paper argues that belief is best understood as the outcome of multiple processes, including rational updating and heuristic evidence evaluation, and proposes a hierarchical framework to localize irrationality in belief formation.
    Editor’s comments: Quote from the abstract: "Decades of findings in psychology appear to indicate that human belief is thoroughly irrational. At best, beliefs might be formed by heuristic processes that predictably lead to suboptimal outcomes. At worst, they are slaves to motivated reasoning, which allows people to come to whichever conclusions they prefer."
  3. Intentionality and meta-awareness of mind wandering: Are they one and the same, or distinct dimensions? Paper: 2004Posted:
    MetacognitionAttentionProcess of Thought
    Summary: This entry examines whether intentionality and meta-awareness are distinct dimensions of mind wandering, presenting initial evidence that they are dissociable and thereby contributing to a more nuanced understanding of spontaneous thought.
  4. Mind-wandering as spontaneous thought: a dynamic framework Paper: 2018Posted:
    AttentionProcess of Thought
    Summary: This study examines how transcranial stimulation of the frontal lobes increases the propensity for mind-wandering without altering meta-awareness, contributing to the understanding of spontaneous thought processes and the dynamics of attention.
  5. Thinking vs. Thought in the context of David Bohm: The Awakening of Creativity as Opposed to Arbitrariness and Fragmentation of Scientific Knowledge Paper: 2021Posted:
    Process of ThoughtFragmentation
    Summary: This doctoral thesis examines David Bohm's distinction between thinking and thought, arguing that genuine creative thinking fosters freedom, while habitual thought leads to fragmentation and arbitrariness in scientific knowledge. It explores Bohm's use of metaphor and analogy to illuminate how affective bonds and contexts shape a physicist's worldview, and traces the enduring influence of these ideas on contemporary research.