Publications of Paul Seli

Journal Articles

  1. Landry, AP; Fincher, K; Barr, N; Brosowsky, NP; Protzko, J; Ariely, D; Seli, P (2024). Harnessing dehumanization theory, modern media, and an intervention tournament to reduce support for retributive war crimes. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 111.
  2. Ragnhildstveit, A; Tuteja, N; Seli, P; Smart, L; Uzun, N; Bass, LC; Miranda, AC; Ford, TJ; Neufeld, SAS (2024). Transitions from child and adolescent to adult mental health services for eating disorders: an in-depth systematic review and development of a transition framework.. Journal of eating disorders, 12(1), 36.
  3. Petranker, R; Anderson, T; Fewster, EC; Aberman, Y; Hazan, M; Gaffrey, M; Seli, P (2024). Keeping the promise: a critique of the current state of microdosing research.. Frontiers in psychiatry, 15, 1217102.
  4. Landry, AP; Seli, P (2024). A family-resemblances framework for dehumanization research. Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology, 6.
  5. Bellaiche, L; Shahi, R; Turpin, MH; Ragnhildstveit, A; Sprockett, S; Barr, N; Christensen, A; Seli, P (2023). Humans versus AI: whether and why we prefer human-created compared to AI-created artwork.. Cognitive research: principles and implications, 8(1), 42.
  6. Landry, AP; Schooler, JW; Willer, R; Seli, P (2023). Reducing Explicit Blatant Dehumanization by Correcting Exaggerated Meta-Perceptions. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 14(4), 407-418.
  7. Brendle, M; Ragnhildstveit, A; Slayton, M; Smart, L; Cunningham, S; Zimmerman, MH; Seli, P; Gaffrey, MS; Averill, LA; Robison, R (2023). Registered clinical trials investigating ketamine and esketamine for treatment-resistant depression: A systematic review. Journal of Psychedelic Studies, 6(3), 176-187.
  8. Brosowsky, NP; DeGutis, J; Esterman, M; Smilek, D; Seli, P (2023). Mind Wandering, Motivation, and Task Performance Over Time: Evidence That Motivation Insulates People From the Negative Effects of Mind Wandering. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory Research, and Practice, 10(4), 475-486.
  9. Jansen, EJ; Danckert, J; Seli, P; Scholer, AA (2023). Under pressure: Locomotion and assessment in the COVID-19 pandemic. Self and Identity, 22(1), 1-18.
  10. Smith, AC; Brosowsky, NP; Caron, EE; Seli, P; Smilek, D (2023). Examining the relation between mind wandering and unhealthy eating behaviours. Personality and Individual Differences, 200.
  11. Ragnhildstveit, A; Kaiyo, M; Snyder, MB; Jackson, LK; Lopez, A; Mayo, C; Miranda, AC; August, RJ; Seli, P; Robison, R; Averill, LA (2023). Cannabis-assisted psychotherapy for complex dissociative posttraumatic stress disorder: A case report.. Frontiers in psychiatry, 14, 1051542.
  12. Bellaiche, L; Smith, AP; Barr, N; Christensen, A; Williams, C; Ragnhildstveit, A; Schooler, J; Beaty, R; Chatterjee, A; Seli, P (2023). Back to the basics: Abstract painting as an index of creativity. Creativity Research Journal, 35(4), 698-713.
  13. Ragnhildstveit, A; Khan, R; Seli, P; Bass, LC; August, RJ; Kaiyo, M; Barr, N; Jackson, LK; Gaffrey, MS; Barsuglia, JP; Averill, LA (2023). 5-MeO-DMT for post-traumatic stress disorder: a real-world longitudinal case study.. Frontiers in psychiatry, 14, 1271152.
  14. Stanley, ML; Whitehead, PS; Marsh, EJ; Seli, P (2022). Prior exposure increases judged truth even during periods of mind wandering.. Psychonomic bulletin & review, 29(5), 1997-2007.
  15. Smith, AP; Brosowsky, N; Murray, S; Daniel, R; Meier, ME; Seli, P (2022). Fixation, flexibility, and creativity: The dynamics of mind wandering.. Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance, 48(7), 689-710.
  16. Brosowsky, NP; Smith, AC; Smilek, D; Seli, P (2022). On the relation between mind wandering, PTSD symptomology, and self-control.. Consciousness and cognition, 99, 103288.
  17. Brosowsky, NP; Barr, N; Mugon, J; Scholer, AA; Seli, P; Danckert, J (2022). Creativity, Boredom Proneness and Well-Being in the Pandemic.. Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland), 12(3), 68.
  18. Ragnhildstveit, A; Slayton, M; Jackson, LK; Brendle, M; Ahuja, S; Holle, W; Moore, C; Sollars, K; Seli, P; Robison, R (2022). Ketamine as a Novel Psychopharmacotherapy for Eating Disorders: Evidence and Future Directions.. Brain sciences, 12(3), 382.
  19. Smith, AC; Brosowsky, NP; Ralph, BCW; Smilek, D; Seli, P (2022). Re-examining the effect of motivation on intentional and unintentional task-unrelated thought: accounting for thought constraint produces novel results.. Psychological research, 86(1), 87-97.
  20. Lopata, JA; Barr, N; Slayton, M; Seli, P (2022). Dual-Modes of Creative Thought in the Classroom: Implications of Network Neuroscience for Creativity Education. Translational Issues in Psychological Science, 8(1), 79-89.
  21. Whitehead, PS; Mahmoud, Y; Seli, P; Egner, T (2021). Mind wandering at encoding, but not at retrieval, disrupts one-shot stimulus-control learning.. Attention, perception & psychophysics, 83(7), 2968-2982.
  22. O'Neill, K; Smith, AP; Smilek, D; Seli, P (2021). Dissociating the freely-moving thought dimension of mind-wandering from the intentionality and task-unrelated thought dimensions.. Psychological research, 85(7), 2599-2609.
  23. Murray, S; Liang, N; Brosowsky, N; Seli, P (2021). What are the benefits of mind wandering to creativity?. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts.
  24. Brosowsky, NP; Murray, S; Schooler, JW; Seli, P (2021). Thought dynamics under task demands: Evaluating the influence of task difficulty on unconstrained thought.. Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance, 47(9), 1298-1312.
  25. Seli, P; O'Neill, K; Carriere, JSA; Smilek, D; Beaty, RE; Schacter, DL (2021). Mind-Wandering Across the Age Gap: Age-Related Differences in Mind-Wandering Are Partially Attributable to Age-Related Differences in Motivation.. The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences, 76(7), 1264-1271.
  26. Frith, E; Elbich, DB; Christensen, AP; Rosenberg, MD; Chen, Q; Kane, MJ; Silvia, PJ; Seli, P; Beaty, RE (2021). Intelligence and creativity share a common cognitive and neural basis.. Journal of experimental psychology. General, 150(4), 609-632.
  27. Brosowsky, NP; Murray, S; Schooler, JW; Seli, P (2021). Attention need not always apply: Mind wandering impedes explicit but not implicit sequence learning.. Cognition, 209, 104530.
  28. Boylan, J; Seli, P; Scholer, AA; Danckert, J (2021). Boredom in the COVID-19 pandemic: Trait boredom proneness, the desire to act, and rule-breaking.. Personality and individual differences, 171, 110387.
  29. Smallwood, J; Turnbull, A; Wang, H-T; Ho, NSP; Poerio, GL; Karapanagiotidis, T; Konu, D; Mckeown, B; Zhang, M; Murphy, C; Vatansever, D; Bzdok, D; Konishi, M; Leech, R; Seli, P; Schooler, JW; Bernhardt, B; Margulies, DS; Jefferies, E (2021). The neural correlates of ongoing conscious thought.. iScience, 24(3), 102132.
  30. Ralph, BCW; Smith, AC; Seli, P; Smilek, D (2021). The relation between task-unrelated media multitasking and task-related motivation.. Psychological research, 85(1), 408-422.
  31. Gross, ME; Smith, AP; Graveline, YM; Beaty, RE; Schooler, JW; Seli, P (2021). Comparing the phenomenological qualities of stimulus-independent thought, stimulus-dependent thought and dreams using experience sampling.. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 376(1817), 20190694.
  32. Forrin, ND; Mills, C; D’Mello, SK; Risko, EF; Smilek, D; Seli, P (2021). TL;DR: Longer Sections of Text Increase Rates of Unintentional Mind-Wandering. Journal of Experimental Education, 89(2), 278-290.
  33. Stanley, ML; Barr, N; Peters, K; Seli, P (2021). Analytic-thinking predicts hoax beliefs and helping behaviors in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Thinking and Reasoning, 27(3), 464-477.
  34. Brosowsky, NP; Van Tilburg, W; Scholer, AA; Boylan, J; Seli, P; Danckert, J (2021). Boredom proneness, political orientation and adherence to social-distancing in the pandemic.. Motivation and emotion, 45(5), 631-640.
  35. Stanley, ML; Sinclair, AH; Seli, P (2020). Intellectual humility and perceptions of political opponents.. Journal of personality, 88(6), 1196-1216.
  36. Sinclair, AH; Stanley, ML; Seli, P (2020). Closed-minded cognition: Right-wing authoritarianism is negatively related to belief updating following prediction error.. Psychonomic bulletin & review, 27(6), 1348-1361.
  37. Struk, AA; Scholer, AA; Danckert, J; Seli, P (2020). Rich environments, dull experiences: how environment can exacerbate the effect of constraint on the experience of boredom.. Cognition & emotion, 34(7), 1517-1523.
  38. Stanley, ML; Whitehead, PS; Sinnott-Armstrong, W; Seli, P (2020). Exposure to opposing reasons reduces negative impressions of ideological opponents. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 91.
  39. Murray, S; Krasich, K; Schooler, JW; Seli, P (2020). What's in a Task? Complications in the Study of the Task-Unrelated-Thought Variety of Mind Wandering.. Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, 15(3), 572-588.
  40. Ralph, BCW; Seli, P; Wilson, KE; Smilek, D (2020). Volitional media multitasking: awareness of performance costs and modulation of media multitasking as a function of task demand.. Psychological research, 84(2), 404-423.
  41. Ralph, BCW; Smith, AC; Seli, P; Smilek, D (2020). Yearning for distraction: Evidence for a trade-off between media multitasking and mind wandering.. Canadian journal of experimental psychology = Revue canadienne de psychologie experimentale, 74(1), 56-72.
  42. Ho, NSP; Baker, D; Karapanagiotidis, T; Seli, P; Wang, HT; Leech, R; Bernhardt, B; Margulies, D; Jefferies, E; Smallwood, J (2020). Missing the forest because of the trees: slower alternations during binocular rivalry are associated with lower levels of visual detail during ongoing thought.. Neuroscience of consciousness, 2020(1), niaa020.
  43. Seli, P; Schacter, DL; Risko, EF; Smilek, D (2019). Increasing participant motivation reduces rates of intentional and unintentional mind wandering.. Psychological research, 83(5), 1057-1069.
  44. Seli, P; Beaty, RE; Marty-Dugas, J; Smilek, D (2019). Depression, anxiety, and stress and the distinction between intentional and unintentional mind wandering. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory Research, and Practice, 6(2), 163-170.
  45. Beaty, RE; Seli, P; Schacter, DL (2019). Network Neuroscience of Creative Cognition: Mapping Cognitive Mechanisms and Individual Differences in the Creative Brain.. Current opinion in behavioral sciences, 27, 22-30.
  46. Beaty, RE; Seli, P; Schacter, DL (2019). Thinking about the past and future in daily life: an experience sampling study of individual differences in mental time travel.. Psychological research, 83(4), 805-816.
  47. Seli, P; Beaty, RE; Cheyne, JA; Smilek, D; Oakman, J; Schacter, DL (2018). How pervasive is mind wandering, really?. Consciousness and cognition, 66, 74-78.
  48. Seli, P; Kane, MJ; Metzinger, T; Smallwood, J; Schacter, DL; Maillet, D; Schooler, JW; Smilek, D (2018). The Family-Resemblances Framework for Mind-Wandering Remains Well Clad.. Trends in cognitive sciences, 22(11), 959-961.
  49. Seli, P; Konishi, M; Risko, EF; Smilek, D (2018). The role of task difficulty in theoretical accounts of mind wandering.. Consciousness and cognition, 65, 255-262.
  50. Seli, P; Carriere, JSA; Wammes, JD; Risko, EF; Schacter, DL; Smilek, D (2018). On the Clock: Evidence for the Rapid and Strategic Modulation of Mind Wandering.. Psychological science, 29(8), 1247-1256.
  51. Laflamme, P; Seli, P; Smilek, D (2018). Validating a visual version of the metronome response task.. Behavior research methods, 50(4), 1503-1514.
  52. Seli, P; Kane, MJ; Smallwood, J; Schacter, DL; Maillet, D; Schooler, JW; Smilek, D (2018). Mind-Wandering as a Natural Kind: A Family-Resemblances View.. Trends in cognitive sciences, 22(6), 479-490.
  53. Seli, P; Smilek, D; Ralph, BCW; Schacter, DL (2018). The awakening of the attention: Evidence for a link between the monitoring of mind wandering and prospective goals.. Journal of experimental psychology. General, 147(3), 431-443.
  54. Seli, P; Ralph, BCW; Risko, EF; W Schooler, J; Schacter, DL; Smilek, D (2017). Intentionality and meta-awareness of mind wandering: Are they one and the same, or distinct dimensions?. Psychonomic bulletin & review, 24(6), 1808-1818.
  55. Maillet, D; Seli, P; Schacter, DL (2017). Mind-wandering and task stimuli: Stimulus-dependent thoughts influence performance on memory tasks and are more often past- versus future-oriented.. Consciousness and cognition, 52, 55-67.
  56. Seli, P; Maillet, D; Smilek, D; Oakman, JM; Schacter, DL (2017). Cognitive aging and the distinction between intentional and unintentional mind wandering.. Psychology and aging, 32(4), 315-324.
  57. Seli, P; Ralph, BCW; Konishi, M; Smilek, D; Schacter, DL (2017). What did you have in mind? Examining the content of intentional and unintentional types of mind wandering.. Consciousness and cognition, 51, 149-156.
  58. Xu, M; Purdon, C; Seli, P; Smilek, D (2017). Mindfulness and mind wandering: The protective effects of brief meditation in anxious individuals.. Consciousness and cognition, 51, 157-165.
  59. Seli, P; Risko, EF; Purdon, C; Smilek, D (2017). Intrusive thoughts: linking spontaneous mind wandering and OCD symptomatology.. Psychological research, 81(2), 392-398.
  60. Golchert, J; Smallwood, J; Jefferies, E; Seli, P; Huntenburg, JM; Liem, F; Lauckner, ME; Oligschläger, S; Bernhardt, BC; Villringer, A; Margulies, DS (2017). Individual variation in intentionality in the mind-wandering state is reflected in the integration of the default-mode, fronto-parietal, and limbic networks.. NeuroImage, 146, 226-235.
  61. Ozubko, JD; Seli, P (2016). Forget all that nonsense: The role of meaning during the forgetting of recollective and familiarity-based memories.. Neuropsychologia, 90, 136-147.
  62. Seli, P; Risko, EF; Smilek, D; Schacter, DL (2016). Mind-Wandering With and Without Intention.. Trends in cognitive sciences, 20(8), 605-617.
  63. Seli, P; Wammes, JD; Risko, EF; Smilek, D (2016). On the relation between motivation and retention in educational contexts: The role of intentional and unintentional mind wandering.. Psychonomic bulletin & review, 23(4), 1280-1287.
  64. Seli, P; Risko, EF; Smilek, D (2016). On the Necessity of Distinguishing Between Unintentional and Intentional Mind Wandering.. Psychological science, 27(5), 685-691.
  65. Seli, P (2016). The Attention-Lapse and Motor Decoupling accounts of SART performance are not mutually exclusive.. Consciousness and cognition, 41, 189-198.
  66. Seli, P; Risko, EF; Smilek, D (2016). Assessing the associations among trait and state levels of deliberate and spontaneous mind wandering.. Consciousness and cognition, 41, 50-56.
  67. Seli, P; Cheyne, JA; Xu, M; Purdon, C; Smilek, D (2015). Motivation, intentionality, and mind wandering: Implications for assessments of task-unrelated thought.. Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition, 41(5), 1417-1425.
  68. Seli, P; Carriere, JSA; Smilek, D (2015). Not all mind wandering is created equal: dissociating deliberate from spontaneous mind wandering.. Psychological research, 79(5), 750-758.
  69. Jonker, TR; Seli, P; MacLeod, CM (2015). Retrieval-Induced Forgetting and Context. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 24(4), 273-278.
  70. Seli, P; Jonker, TR; Cheyne, JA; Cortes, K; Smilek, D (2015). Can research participants comment authoritatively on the validity of their self-reports of mind wandering and task engagement?. Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance, 41(3), 703-709.
  71. Seli, P; Smallwood, J; Cheyne, JA; Smilek, D (2015). On the relation of mind wandering and ADHD symptomatology.. Psychonomic bulletin & review, 22(3), 629-636.
  72. Ralph, BCW; Thomson, DR; Seli, P; Carriere, JSA; Smilek, D (2015). Media multitasking and behavioral measures of sustained attention.. Attention, perception & psychophysics, 77(2), 390-401.
  73. Thomson, DR; Seli, P; Besner, D; Smilek, D (2014). On the link between mind wandering and task performance over time.. Consciousness and cognition, 27, 14-26.
  74. Seli, P; Carriere, JSA; Thomson, DR; Cheyne, JA; Martens, KAE; Smilek, D (2014). Restless mind, restless body.. Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition, 40(3), 660-668.
  75. Ralph, BCW; Seli, P; Cheng, VOY; Solman, GJF; Smilek, D (2014). Running the figure to the ground: figure-ground segmentation during visual search.. Vision research, 97, 65-73.
  76. Jonker, TR; Seli, P; Cheyne, JA; Smilek, D (2013). Performance reactivity in a continuous-performance task: implications for understanding post-error behavior.. Consciousness and cognition, 22(4), 1468-1476.
  77. Jonker, TR; Seli, P; MacLeod, CM (2013). Putting retrieval-induced forgetting in context: an inhibition-free, context-based account.. Psychological review, 120(4), 852-872.
  78. Seli, P; Jonker, TR; Solman, GJF; Cheyne, JA; Smilek, D (2013). A methodological note on evaluating performance in a sustained-attention-to-response task.. Behavior research methods, 45(2), 355-363.
  79. Carriere, JSA; Seli, P; Smilek, D (2013). Wandering in both mind and body: individual differences in mind wandering and inattention predict fidgeting.. Canadian journal of experimental psychology = Revue canadienne de psychologie experimentale, 67(1), 19-31.
  80. Seli, P; Cheyne, JA; Smilek, D (2013). Wandering minds and wavering rhythms: linking mind wandering and behavioral variability.. Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance, 39(1), 1-5.
  81. Seli, P; Carriere, JSA; Levene, M; Smilek, D (2013). How few and far between? Examining the effects of probe rate on self-reported mind wandering.. Frontiers in psychology, 4, 430.
  82. Seli, P; Jonker, TR; Cheyne, JA; Smilek, D (2013). Enhancing SART Validity by Statistically Controlling Speed-Accuracy Trade-Offs.. Frontiers in psychology, 4, 265.
  83. Jonker, TR; Seli, P; Macleod, CM (2012). Less we forget: retrieval cues and release from retrieval-induced forgetting.. Memory & cognition, 40(8), 1236-1245.
  84. Pennycook, G; Cheyne, JA; Seli, P; Koehler, DJ; Fugelsang, JA (2012). Analytic cognitive style predicts religious and paranormal belief.. Cognition, 123(3), 335-346.
  85. Seli, P; Cheyne, JA; Barton, KR; Smilek, D (2012). Consistency of sustained attention across modalities: comparing visual and auditory versions of the SART.. Canadian journal of experimental psychology = Revue canadienne de psychologie experimentale, 66(1), 44-50.
  86. Seli, P; Cheyne, JA; Smilek, D (2012). Attention failures versus misplaced diligence: separating attention lapses from speed-accuracy trade-offs.. Consciousness and cognition, 21(1), 277-291.

Chapters in Books

  1. Barr, N; Beaty, R; Seli, P "Autonomy and control across cognition: Insights from creativity, memory, mind wandering, and reasoning research." Creativity and the Wandering Mind: Spontaneous and Controlled Cognition. January, 2020: 25-54.
  2. Wammes, JD; Seli, P; Smilek, D "Mind-wandering in educational settings." The Oxford Handbook of Spontaneous Thought: Mind-Wandering, Creativity, and Dreaming. Oxford University Press, April, 2018: 259-272.