Peer-reviewed Articles

Kashdan, T. B., McKnight, P.E., Kelso, K., Craig, L., & Gross, M.E. (in press).  Enhancing curiosity with a wise intervention to improve political conversations and relationships. Nature Scientific Reports.    

McKnight, P.E., Kashdan, T.B., MacKay, A., Kelso, K., & Gross, M.E. (in press). Purpose and happiness: A comparison. Journal of Positive Psychology.

Gross, M.E., Schooler, J.W. (2024). Smartphone-based program for enhancing curiosity and its associated virtues: A randomized controlled pilot study. The Journal of Positive Psychology. 

Ortega, J. R., Gross, M.E., Schooler, J.W. (2025). When life is but a dream: Transliminality predicts continuity in bizarreness across the sleep-wake cycle [Special Issue]. Philosophy and the Mind Sciences. 

Garg, A., Shelat, S., Gross, M.E., Smallwood, J., Seli, P., Sripada, C., Schooler, J.W. (2025). Mind wandering out loud: Does Think Aloud change the phenomenology of spontaneous thought? Consciousness and Cognition. 

Gross, M.E., Schooler, J.W. (2024). Standing out: An atypical salience model of creativity. Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

Gross*, M.E., Raynes*, Schooler, J.W. Dobkins, K. (2024). When is a wandering mind unhappy? The mediating role of thought valence. Emotion.

Gross*, M.E., Elliott*, J., & Schooler, J.W. (2024). Why creatives don’t find the oddball odd: Neural and psychological evidence for atypical salience processing. Brain & Cognition.

Gross, M. E., Martini, D., & Schooler, J. W. (2022). Can viewing films promote creative thinking? Examining personality and meaning-making. Creativity Research Journal, 1-15.

Zedelius, C. M., Gross, M. E., & Schooler, J. W. (2022). Inquisitive but not discerning: Deprivation curiosity is associated with excessive openness to inaccurate information. Journal of Research in Personality, 98, 104227.

Wießner, I., Falchi,. M., Maia, L.O., Daldegan-Bueno, D., Palhano-Fontes, F., Mason, N.L., Ramaekers, J.G., Gross, M.E., Schooler, J.W., Feilding, A., Ribeiro, S., Araujo, D.B., Tófoli, L.F. (2022). LSD and creativity: Increased novelty and semantic distances, decreased utility and convergent thinking. Journal of Psychopharmacology, 36(3), 348-359.

Gross, M.E., Zedelius, C. M., & Schooler, J. W. (2020). Cultivating curiosity as a seed for creativity. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 35, 77-82.

Gross, M. E., Smith, A.P., Graveline, Y.M., Beaty, R.E., Schooler, J.W., Seli, P. (2020). Comparing phenomenological qualities of different thought types using experience sampling. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Biological Sciences, 376(1817), 20190694.

Gross, M. E., Araujo, D. B., Zedelius, C. M., & Schooler, J. W. (2019). Is perception the missing link between creativity, curiosity, and schizotypy? NeuroImage, 202, 116125.

Book Chapters

Schooler, J.W., Gross, M.E., Zedelius, C.W., Seli, P. (2024). Mind Wondering: Curious day dreaming and other potentially inspiring forms of mind wandering? In C. Salvi, Wiley, J., Smith, S. M. (Ed.). The Emergence of Insight. University of Cambridge: Cambridge Press.

Gross, M. E. & Schooler, J.W. (2024). Expanding minds: The cognitive processes promoted by exposure to art. In Brewer, C. (Ed.). Art Seeking Understanding. 

Brosowsky, N.P., Gross, M.E., Schooler, J.W., Seli, P. (2024). Jumping about: The role of mind wandering and task-switching in facilitating creative problem-solving. In C. Salvi, Wiley, J., Smith, S. M. (Ed.). The Emergence of Insight. University of Cambridge: Cambridge Press.

Zedelius, C. M., Gross, M. E., & Schooler, J. W. (2018). Mind wandering: More than a bad habit. In B. Verplanken (Ed.), The psychology of habit. New York, NY: Springer.

Mrazek, M.D., Zedelius, C., Gross, M.E., Mrazek, A., Phillips, D. T., Schooler, J.W. (2018). Mindfulness in education: Enhancing academic achievement by reducing mind-wandering. In J. C. Karremans & E.K. Papies (Ed.) Mindfulness in Social Psychology. Radboud University, the Netherlands.