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Improving Self-regulation by Regulating Mind-Wandering Through the Practice of Mindfulness

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Research on mind-wandering, self-regulation and mindfulness have mostly been undertaken independently of each other with little attempt to examine direct relationships between them.

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  1. University College of London, London, UK

    Wai Keung David Cheung

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  1. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Carolyn Penstein Rosé

  2. University of Technology, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Roberto Martínez-Maldonado

  3. University of Duisburg-Essen , Duisburg, Germany

    H. Ulrich Hoppe

  4. UCL Institute of Education, London, UK

    Rose Luckin

  5. UCL Institute of Education, London, UK

    Manolis Mavrikis

  6. UCL Institute of Education, London, UK

    Kaska Porayska-Pomsta

  7. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Bruce McLaren

  8. University of Sussex, Brighton, UK

    Benedict du Boulay

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Cheung, W.K.D. (2018). Improving Self-regulation by Regulating Mind-Wandering Through the Practice of Mindfulness. In: Penstein Rosé, C., et al. Artificial Intelligence in Education. AIED 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10948. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93846-2_93

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