Jonathan W. Schooler

University of California, Santa Barbara — United States

Neuroscience · Life Sciences

82h-index33.9kcitations406works3.12yr avg
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Research Topics

Mind wandering and attention(113), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies(69), Sleep and Wakefulness Research(43), Memory Processes and Influences(40), Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes(33)

Publications406 total

The veil of distraction: Mind-wandering and memorability jointly shape visual recognition and recall
Memory & Cognition·2026
Social desirability bias obscures mind-wandering reports
2025Open Access
Social desirability bias obscures mind-wandering reports
2025Open Access
The phenomenology of encoding: Experience sampling reveals thoughts associated with the retention of visual and verbal materials
Consciousness and Cognition·2025
Now I feel like I’m going to get to it soon: a brief, scalable intervention for state procrastination
BMC Psychology·2025Open Access
System-Wide Hierarchical Coupling of Brain and Body Rhythms Under State and Latent Stress
2025Open Access
Catching the wandering mind with real-time triggers
Journal of Vision·2025Open Access
When life is but a dream: Does transliminality predict continuity of thought across the sleep-wake cycle?
Philosophy and the Mind Sciences·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Smartphone-based program for enhancing curiosity and its associated virtues: a randomized waitlist-controlled pilot study
The Journal of Positive Psychology·2025· 2 cited
An integrative framework for the mechanisms underlying mindfulness-induced cognitive change
2025Open Access
Opening the black box: Think Aloud as a method to study the spontaneous stream of consciousness
Consciousness and Cognition·2025· 8 citedOpen Access
Personality and the Stream of Consciousness: Evidence from Think Aloud and Retrospective Reports
SSRN Electronic Journal·2025Open Access
Gratitude Towards Our Past Self and General Gratitude Enhance Self-Continuity
2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Watching the experience of free will dissolve: The influence of intensive meditation on belief in free will.
2024Open Access
When is a wandering mind unhappy? The role of thought valence.
Emotion·2024· 7 cited
An integrative framework for the mechanisms underlying mindfulness-induced cognitive change
Nature Reviews Psychology·2024· 11 cited
Retraction Note: High replicability of newly discovered social-behavioural findings is achievable
Nature Human Behaviour·2024· 8 citedOpen Access
Mind-wandering during encoding impairs recognition for both forgettable and memorable complex scenes
Journal of Vision·2024Open Access
Predicting attentional lapses using response time speed in continuous performance tasks
Frontiers in Cognition·2024· 9 citedOpen Access
Three dimensions of time: An approach for reconciling the discrepancies between experienced time and modern physics
Possibility Studies & Society·2024· 2 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Jonathan Smallwood(21), Michael D. Mrazek(8), Michael S. Franklin(7), Benjamin Baird(6), Todd C. Handy(3), Erik D. Reichle(3), Kevin Brown(3), Kalina Christoff(2), Dawa T. Phillips(2), Timothy D. Wilson(2), Julia W. Y. Kam(2), Kathleen D. Vohs(2), Merrill McSpadden(2), James M. Broadway(2), Christine M. Tipper(2), Elizabeth F. Loftus(2), Alan Gordon(1), Rachelle M. Smith(1), Timothy D. Wilson(1), Michael A. Sayette(1)