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Multifaceted consequences of visual distraction during natural behaviour
Visual distraction is a ubiquitous aspect of everyday life. Studying the consequences of distraction during temporally extended tasks, however, is...
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The Relationship Between Nomophobia, Addiction, and Distraction
Nomophobia is the fear of not accessing a mobile phone which has been recognised in the literature as a series of feelings and symptoms experienced...
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Motivation and emotional distraction interact and affect executive functions
Previous research on cool-hot executive function (EF) interactions has examined the effects of motivation and emotional distraction on cool EF...
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Auditory context-dependent distraction by unexpected visual stimuli
Research findings indicate that when a task-irrelevant stimulus feature deviates from an otherwise predictable pattern, participants performing a...
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Delayed memory for complex visual stimuli does not benefit from distraction during encoding
The covert retrieval model (McCabe, Journal of Memory and Language 58 (2), 480–494,
2008 ) postulates that delayed memory performance is enhanced when...
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Reconsidering reappraisal: in emotionally intense contexts, people choose distraction or minimizing over reconstrual to regulate others’ emotions
Prior research has established that people use reappraisal to regulate others’ emotions in higher-emotional intensities but use distraction in...
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Terms of debate: Consensus definitions to guide the scientific discourse on visual distraction
Hypothesis-driven research rests on clearly articulated scientific theories. The building blocks for communicating these theories are scientific...
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Examining emotion regulation using a distraction and reappraisal task in children and adolescents with and without ADHD
Children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have difficulty with emotion regulation relative to their non-ADHD peers, including the...
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The impact of communication software usage on work engagement in remote work: the mediating role of distraction and FOMO
With the increasing demand for work-life balance and the development of information technology, remote work has become a widely adopted work mode,...
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Task-specific auditory distraction in serial recall and mental arithmetic
Previous studies suggest that task-irrelevant changing-state sound interferes specifically with the processing of serial order information in the...
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Explaining variation in adolescents’ social media-related distraction: The role of social connectivity and disconnectivity factors
Social media are often believed to distract adolescents’ attention. While existing research has shown that some adolescents experience more social...
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Various sources of distraction during analogical reasoning
Reasoning by analogy requires mapping relational correspondence between two situations to transfer information from the more familiar (source) to the...
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Reliance on distraction is associated with increased avoidance behavior under approach-avoidance conflict
The use of less effective emotional regulation strategies, such as distraction, may relate to greater reliance on avoidance behavior under conflict....
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From Distraction to Mindfulness: Latent Structure of the Spanish Mind-Wandering Deliberate and Spontaneous Scales and Their Relationship to Dispositional Mindfulness and Attentional Control
ObjectivesMind-wandering is a form of internal distraction that may occur both deliberately and spontaneously. This study aimed to provide a...
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The mechanisms of far transfer from cognitive training: specifying the role of distraction suppression
Cognitive training aims to produce a durable transfer to untrained abilities (i.e., far transfer). However, designing effective programs is...
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Sadness-counteracts-joy versus distraction and reappraisal in the down-regulation of positive emotion: Evidence from event-related potentials
The prevailing view emphasizes the up-regulation of positive emotions, as they are essential for individuals to expand flexibility of thought,...
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The Roles of Body Image, Sexual Motives, and Distraction in Women’s Sexual Pleasure
Women with body image concerns are more likely to experience sexual difficulties (e.g., with arousal, lubrication, orgasm). However, the processes by...
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A cognitive model of response omissions in distraction paradigms
The effects of distraction on responses manifest in three ways: prolonged reaction times, and increased error and response omission rates. However,...
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Difficulty suppressing visual distraction while dual tasking
Human beings must often perform multiple tasks concurrently or in rapid succession. Laboratory research has revealed striking limitations in the...
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The impact of auditory distraction on reading comprehension: An individual differences investigation
Background noise disrupts auditory selective attention and impairs performance on cognitive tasks, but the degree to which it is disruptive depends...
