Publications by authors named "Nadia-Anais de Stefano"
Despite an established body of research characterizing how creative individuals explore their world, relatively little is known about how such individuals navigate their , especially in unstructured contexts such as periods of awake rest. Across two studies, the present manuscript tested the hypothesis that creative individuals are more engaged with their idle thoughts and more associative in the dynamic transitions between them. Study 1 captured the real-time conscious experiences of 81 adults as they voiced aloud the content of their mind moment-by-moment across a 10-minute unconstrained baseline period.
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- The study looked at how people's thoughts change and what they focus on when they're not doing anything.
- Researchers found that when someone thinks negatively, their thoughts become more narrow and focused on bad things.
- People who tend to dwell on negative thoughts, called brooding, often think about the past and have shorter positive thoughts, which makes it harder for them to shift back to happy ideas.