| Media multitasking and failures of attention in everyday life BCW Ralph, DR Thomson, JA Cheyne, D Smilek Psychological research 78, 661-669, 2014 | 245 | 2014 |
| Disengagement during lectures: Media multitasking and mind wandering in university classrooms JD Wammes, BCW Ralph, C Mills, N Bosch, TL Duncan, D Smilek Computers & Education 132, 76-89, 2019 | 139 | 2019 |
| Media multitasking and behavioral measures of sustained attention BCW Ralph, DR Thomson, P Seli, JSA Carriere, D Smilek Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics 77, 390-401, 2015 | 119 | 2015 |
| The relation between smartphone use and everyday inattention. J Marty-Dugas, BCW Ralph, JM Oakman, D Smilek Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice 5 (1), 46, 2018 | 109 | 2018 |
| Intentionality and meta-awareness of mind wandering: Are they one and the same, or distinct dimensions? P Seli, BCW Ralph, EF Risko, J W Schooler, DL Schacter, D Smilek Psychonomic bulletin & review 24, 1808-1818, 2017 | 86 | 2017 |
| What did you have in mind? Examining the content of intentional and unintentional types of mind wandering P Seli, BCW Ralph, M Konishi, D Smilek, DL Schacter Consciousness and cognition 51, 149-156, 2017 | 85 | 2017 |
| Individual differences in media multitasking and performance on the n-back BCW Ralph, D Smilek Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics 79, 582-592, 2017 | 68 | 2017 |
| Disrupting monotony while increasing demand: Benefits of rest and intervening tasks on vigilance BCW Ralph, K Onderwater, DR Thomson, D Smilek Psychological research 81, 432-444, 2017 | 59 | 2017 |
| Wandering minds and wavering goals: Examining the relation between mind wandering and grit in everyday life and the classroom. BCW Ralph, JD Wammes, N Barr, D Smilek Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie …, 2017 | 55 | 2017 |
| Volitional media multitasking: Awareness of performance costs and modulation of media multitasking as a function of task demand BCW Ralph, P Seli, KE Wilson, D Smilek Psychological Research 84, 404-423, 2020 | 41 | 2020 |
| The awakening of the attention: Evidence for a link between the monitoring of mind wandering and prospective goals. P Seli, D Smilek, BCW Ralph, DL Schacter Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 147 (3), 431, 2018 | 40 | 2018 |
| The more your mind wanders, the smaller your attentional blink: An individual differences study DR Thomson, BCW Ralph, D Besner, D Smilek Quarterly journal of experimental psychology 68 (1), 181-191, 2015 | 21 | 2015 |
| Yearning for distraction: Evidence for a trade-off between media multitasking and mind wandering. BCW Ralph, AC Smith, P Seli, D Smilek Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie …, 2020 | 19 | 2020 |
| The relation between task-unrelated media multitasking and task-related motivation BCW Ralph, AC Smith, P Seli, D Smilek Psychological Research 85, 408-422, 2021 | 18 | 2021 |
| Re-examining the effect of motivation on intentional and unintentional task-unrelated thought: Accounting for thought constraint produces novel results AC Smith, NP Brosowsky, BCW Ralph, D Smilek, P Seli Psychological research, 1-11, 2022 | 15 | 2022 |
| Restoration of sustained attention following virtual nature exposure: Undeniable or unreliable? LJ Hicks, AC Smith, BCW Ralph, D Smilek Journal of Environmental Psychology 71, 101488, 2020 | 15 | 2020 |
| Examining the relation between grit, flow, and measures of attention in everyday life. AC Smith, J Marty-Dugas, BCW Ralph, D Smilek Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice, 2020 | 15 | 2020 |
| Does posture influence the Stroop effect? EE Caron, MG Reynolds, BCW Ralph, JSA Carriere, D Besner, D Smilek Psychological Science 31 (11), 1452-1460, 2020 | 14 | 2020 |
| Examining the influence of saliency of peer-induced distractions on direction of gaze and lecture recall NE Phillips, BCW Ralph, JSA Carriere, D Smilek Computers & Education 99, 81-93, 2016 | 13 | 2016 |
| Boredom and media multitasking AC Drody, BCW Ralph, J Danckert, D Smilek Frontiers in Psychology 13, 807667, 2022 | 11 | 2022 |
Daniel SmilekProfessor of Psychology, University of WaterlooVerified email at uwaterloo.ca
