Jonathan W. Schooler

34.1k total citations · 11 hit papers
219 papers, 21.4k citations indexed

About

Jonathan W. Schooler is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jonathan W. Schooler has authored 219 papers receiving a total of 21.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 146 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 81 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 49 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Jonathan W. Schooler's work include Mind wandering and attention (77 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (57 papers) and Sleep and Wakefulness Research (30 papers). Jonathan W. Schooler is often cited by papers focused on Mind wandering and attention (77 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (57 papers) and Sleep and Wakefulness Research (30 papers). Jonathan W. Schooler collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Jonathan W. Schooler's co-authors include Jonathan Smallwood, Michael D. Mrazek, Benjamin Baird, Michael S. Franklin, Timothy D. Wilson, Timothy D. Wilson, Kalina Christoff, Erik D. Reichle, Alan Gordon and Rachelle M. Smith and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Jonathan W. Schooler

209 papers receiving 20.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The restless mind.

2006 1.5k citations Jonathan Smallwood, Jonathan W. Schooler profile →
Experience sampling during fMRI reveals default network and executive system contributions to mind wandering

2009 1.2k citations Kalina Christoff, Jonathan Smallwood et al. profile →
The Science of Mind Wandering: Empirically Navigating the Stream of Consciousness

2014 1.1k citations Jonathan Smallwood, Jonathan W. Schooler profile →
Thinking too much: Introspection can reduce the quality of preferences and decisions.

1991 818 citations Jonathan W. Schooler et al. profile →
Mindfulness Training Improves Working Memory Capacity and GRE Performance While Reducing Mind Wandering

2013 680 citations Michael D. Mrazek, Michael S. Franklin et al. profile →
Thinking too much: Introspection can reduce the quality of preferences and decisions.

1991 662 citations Jonathan W. Schooler et al. profile →
Meta-awareness, perceptual decoupling and the wandering mind

2011 604 citations Jonathan W. Schooler, Jonathan Smallwood et al. profile →
Inspired by Distraction

2012 598 citations Benjamin Baird, Jonathan Smallwood et al. profile →
Verbal overshadowing of visual memories: Some things are better left unsaid

1990 537 citations Jonathan W. Schooler et al. profile →
Mindfulness and mind-wandering: Finding convergence through opposing constructs.

2012 411 citations Michael D. Mrazek, Jonathan Smallwood et al. profile →
Mind-Wandering as a Natural Kind: A Family-Resemblances View

2018 248 citations Jonathan Smallwood, Jonathan W. Schooler et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jonathan W. Schooler United States	67	15.3k	8.0k	3.6k	2.9k	1.8k	219	21.4k
Elizabeth A. Phelps United States	84	21.1k 1.4×	8.1k 1.0×	6.6k 1.8×	4.1k 1.4×	2.1k 1.2×	202	31.0k
Eveline A. Crone Netherlands	76	10.8k 0.7×	5.2k 0.6×	4.7k 1.3×	5.6k 1.9×	2.3k 1.3×	270	21.2k
Bernhard Hommel Netherlands	84	20.8k 1.4×	6.6k 0.8×	10.0k 2.7×	1.6k 0.5×	4.4k 2.5×	467	27.3k
Ben Seymour United Kingdom	51	11.2k 0.7×	3.4k 0.4×	3.6k 1.0×	1.6k 0.6×	826 0.5×	108	16.8k
P. Read Montague United States	48	11.0k 0.7×	3.0k 0.4×	2.9k 0.8×	2.1k 0.7×	708 0.4×	123	17.3k
C. Neil Macrae United Kingdom	69	11.7k 0.8×	6.2k 0.8×	7.6k 2.1×	1.7k 0.6×	2.0k 1.1×	208	20.2k
Geraint Rees United Kingdom	87	21.6k 1.4×	4.8k 0.6×	3.2k 0.9×	1.3k 0.5×	1.3k 0.7×	367	28.2k
John P. O’Doherty United States	85	27.1k 1.8×	7.9k 1.0×	6.5k 1.8×	4.0k 1.4×	1.9k 1.1×	180	38.1k
Hanna Damásio United States	66	19.4k 1.3×	6.4k 0.8×	5.6k 1.5×	4.1k 1.4×	3.3k 1.9×	161	29.9k
Michael W. Eysenck United Kingdom	58	7.1k 0.5×	9.4k 1.2×	4.8k 1.3×	6.0k 2.1×	2.7k 1.5×	192	20.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jonathan W. Schooler

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Smallwood, Jonathan, et al.. (2025). Opening the black box: Think Aloud as a method to study the spontaneous stream of consciousness. Consciousness and Cognition. 128. 103815–103815. 2 indexed citations

Protzko, John, et al.. (2024). How is GPS used? Understanding navigation system use and its relation to spatial ability. Cognitive Research Principles and Implications. 9(1). 16–16. 6 indexed citations

Kaakinen, Johanna K., et al.. (2024). Evidence-based scientific thinking and decision-making in everyday life. Cognitive Research Principles and Implications. 9(1). 50–50.

Schooler, Jonathan W., et al.. (2024). Digital Attention Training: Improving the Mental Health and Well-Being of Adolescent Youth. Creative Education. 15(10). 2151–2173.

Protzko, John & Jonathan W. Schooler. (2023). What I didn’t grow up with is dangerous: personal experience with a new technology or societal change reduces the belief that it corrupts youth. Frontiers in Psychology. 14. 1017313–1017313. 1 indexed citations

Maia, Lucas Oliveira, Dimitri Daldegan‐Bueno, Fernanda Palhano-Fontes, et al.. (2022). LSD and creativity: Increased novelty and symbolic thinking, decreased utility and convergent thinking. Journal of Psychopharmacology. 36(3). 348–359. 25 indexed citations

Protzko, John, et al.. (2022). Nonlinear effect amplification: Differential susceptibility of verbal overshadowing as a function of time to interference.. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. 12(4). 564–573. 2 indexed citations

Smallwood, Jonathan, Adam Turnbull, Hao-Ting Wang, et al.. (2021). The neural correlates of ongoing conscious thought. iScience. 24(3). 102132–102132. 59 indexed citations

Visser, Renée M., Michael C. Anderson, Adam R. Aron, et al.. (2021). Neuropsychological Mechanisms of Intrusive Thinking. The MIT Press eBooks. 125–184. 4 indexed citations

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Smith, Anna, et al.. (2020). Comparing the phenomenological qualities of stimulus-independent thought, stimulus-dependent thought and dreams using experience sampling. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 376(1817). 20190694–20190694. 20 indexed citations

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Cloughesy, Jonathan N., Alissa J. Mrazek, Michael D. Mrazek, & Jonathan W. Schooler. (2020). Planning to Practice: Action and Coping Plans Increase Days of Meditation Practiced. Psi Chi Journal of Psychological Research. 25(2). 203–209. 1 indexed citations

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Mrazek, Alissa J., et al.. (2018). The future of mindfulness training is digital, and the future is now. Current Opinion in Psychology. 28. 81–86. 115 indexed citations

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Gong, Zhun, et al.. (2018). Research on the Relationship between Positive Emotions, Psychological Capital and Job Burnout in Enterprises’ Employees: Based on the Broaden-and-Build Theory of Positive Emotions. Canadian social science. 14(5). 42–48. 11 indexed citations

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Franklin, Michael S., Jonathan Smallwood, Claire M. Zedelius, James M. Broadway, & Jonathan W. Schooler. (2015). Unaware yet reliant on attention: Experience sampling reveals that mind-wandering impedes implicit learning. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 23(1). 223–229. 22 indexed citations

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Smallwood, Jonathan, Krzysztof J. Gorgolewski, Johannes Golchert, et al.. (2013). The default modes of reading: modulation of posterior cingulate and medial prefrontal cortex connectivity associated with comprehension and task focus while reading. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 7. 734–734. 53 indexed citations

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Smallwood, Jonathan, Kevin Brown, Christine M. Tipper, et al.. (2011). Pupillometric Evidence for the Decoupling of Attention from Perceptual Input during Offline Thought. PLoS ONE. 6(3). e18298–e18298. 208 indexed citations

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Keramatian, Kamyar, et al.. (2006). Mind-wandering with and without awareness: An fMRI study of spontaneous thought processes. Max Planck Digital Library. 28(28). 804–809. 15 indexed citations

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Schooler, Jonathan W. & Charles A. Schreiber. (2004). Experience, Meta-consciousness, and the Paradox of Introspection.. Journal of Consciousness Studies. 65 indexed citations

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Fallshore, Marte & Jonathan W. Schooler. (1995). Verbal vulnerability of perceptual expertise.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 21(6). 1608–1623. 148 indexed citations

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Schooler, Jonathan W. & James W. Tanaka. (1991). Composites, compromises, and CHARM: What is the evidence for blend memory representations?. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 120(1). 96–100. 20 indexed citations

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