2021-2024
Welhaf, M.S., Matta, J., Jaeggi, S., Buschkuehl, M., Jonides, J., Gotlib, I. H, & Thompson, R. J. (Accepted). The Experience of Mind Wandering in Major Depressive Disorder: An Experience-Sampling Study. Journal of Affective Disorders.
Schubert, A. L., Frischkorn, G. T., Sadus, K., Welhaf, M. S., Kane, M. J., & Rummel, J. (Accepted). The brief mind wandering three-factor scale (BMW-3). Behavior Research Methods.
Welhaf, M. S. (Accepted). Individual Differences in Working Memory Capacity and Temporal Preparation: A secondary reanalysis. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics.
Welhaf, M. S., & Bugg, J. B. (2024) Positively Framing Mind Wandering does not Increase Mind Wandering in Older Adults. Psychological Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-024-01983-4
Welhaf, M. S., Balota, D. A., Morris, J. C., Hassenstab, J., & Aschenbrenner, A. J. (2024). Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Changes in Mind Wandering in Older Adults. Psychology & Aging, 39, 495-509
Welhaf, M. S., Astacio, M. A., & Banks, J. B. (2024). Further Unpacking Individual Differences in Mind Wandering: The Role of Emotional Valence and Awareness. Consciousness & Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2024.103697.
Rodriguez-Boerwinkle, R. M., Welhaf, M. S., Smeekens, B. A., Booth, R. A., Kwapil, T. R., Silvia, P. J., & Kane, M. J. (2024). Variation in Divergent Thinking, Executive-Control Abilities, and Mind-Wandering Measured in and Out of the Laboratory. Creativity Research Journal, 1–35. https://doi.org/10.1080/10400419.2024.2326336
Welhaf, M. S., Wilks, H., Aschennbrenner, A. J., Balota, D. A., Schindler, S., Benzinger, T., Gordon, B., Cruchaga, C., Xiong, C., Morris, J. C., & Hassenstab, J. J. (2024) Naturalistic Assessment of Reaction Time Variability in Older Adults at Risk for Alzheimer Disease. Journal of the International Neuropsychology Society, 30(5), 428–438. doi:10.1017/S1355617723011475
Aschenbrenner, A. J., Welhaf, M.S., Hassenstab, J. J., & Jackson, J. J. (2024) Antecedents and consequences of mind wandering states in healthy aging and mild cognitive impairment. Neuropsychology, 38(5), 430–442. https://doi.org/10.1037/neu0000941
Welhaf, M. S., Banks, J. B., & Bugg, J M. (2024). Age-Related Differences in Mind Wandering: The Role of Emotional Valence. Journal of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences.79(1), gbad151, https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbad151
Welhaf, M. S., & Kane, M. J. (2024) A Combined Experimental–Correlational Approach to the Construct Validity of Performance-Based and Self-Report-Based Measures of Sustained Attention. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics. 86, 109–145. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-023-02786-2
Welhaf M. S., & Kane, (2024). A Nomothetic Span Approach to the Construct Validity of Sustained Attention Measurement: Re-Analyzing Two Latent-Variable Studies of Performance Variability and Mind-Wandering Self-Reports. Psychological Research, 88, 39–80. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-023-01820-0
Welhaf, M.S., Meier, M. E., Smeekens, B. A., Silvia, P. J., Kwapil, T. R., & Kane, M. J. (2023). A "Goldilocks zone" for mind wandering reports? A secondary analysis of how few thought probes are enough for reliable and valid measurement. Behavior Research Methods.
Welhaf, M.S., Phillips, N. E., Smeekens, B. A., Miyake, A., & Kane, M. J. (2022). Interpolated Testing and pretesting as interventions to reduce task-unrelated thoughts during a video lecture. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications. 7. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-022-00372-y
Banks, J. B., & Welhaf, M. S., (2022). Individual differences in dimensions of mind wandering: the mediating role of emotional valence and intentionality. Psychological Research.
Kane, M.J., Smeekens, B.A., Meier, M.E., Welhaf, M.S., & Phillips, N.E. (2021). Testing the construct validity of competing measurement approaches to probed mind-wandering reports. Behavior Research Methods. 53, 2372–2411. https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13428-021-01557-x
Erb, C.D., Welhaf, M.S., Smeekens, B.A., Moreau, D., Kane, M.J., & Marcovitch, S. (2021). Linking the dynamics of cognitive control to individual differences in working memory capacity: Evidence from reaching behavior. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition , 47, 1383-1402.
Frith, E., Kane, M.J., Welhaf, M.S., Christensen, A.P., Silvia, P.J., Seli, P., & Beaty, R.E. (2021). Keeping creativity under control: Contributions of attention control and fluid intelligence to divergent thinking. Creativity Research Journal, 33, 138-157.
2014-2020
Welhaf, M.S., Smeekens, B.A. Meier, M.E., Silvia, P.J., Kwapil, T.R., & Kane, M.J. (2020). The worst performance rule, or the not-best performance rule? Latent-variable analyses of working memory capacity, mind-wandering propensity, and reaction time. Journal of Intelligence, 8, 25. https://www.mdpi.com/2079-3200/8/2/25
Welhaf, M.S., Smeekens, B.A., Gazzia, N.C., Perkins, J.B., Silvia, P.J., Meier, M.E., Kwapil, T.R., & Kane, M.J. (2020). An exploratory analysis of individual differences in mind wandering content and consistency. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice, 7, 103-125.
Banks, J. B., Welhaf, M. S, Hood, A. V. B., Boals, A., & Tartar, J. L. (2016). Examining the role of emotional valence of mind wandering: All mind wandering is not equal. Consciousness and Cognition, 43, 167-176.
Banks, J. B., Welhaf, M. S., Srour, A. (2015). The protective effects of brief mindfulness meditation training. Consciousness and Cognition, 33, 277-285.
Banks, J. B., Tartar, J. L., & Welhaf, M. S. (2014). Where's the impairment: An examination of factors that impact sustained attention following a stressor. Cognition & Emotion, 28, 856-866.