Flow

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Boudreau, P., Mackenzie, S. H., & Hodge, K. (2019). Flow states in adventure recreation: A systematic review and thematic synthesis. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 101611.

Brown, L. (2015). Work flow: Finding work you love at any stage. [video] (18:23 minutes). Available on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkVMUkqeadU

Cheron, G. (2016). How to measure the psychological “flow”? a neuroscience perspective. Frontiers in psychology, 7, 1823.

Cornblatt, M. (2016). Flow state: Journey from ICU to drone racing superman. [video] (15:21 minutes). TEDxHollywood. Available on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRQkrncFaUg

Csikszentmihaly, M. (2014). Flow, the secret to happiness. [video] (18:43 minutes). TEDTalk. Available on: https://www.ted.com/talks/mihaly_csikszentmihalyi_flow_the_secret_to_happiness?language=en

Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1997). Flow and the psychology of discovery and invention. HarperPerennial, New York, 39.

Csikszentmihalyi, M. (2013). Flow: The psychology of happiness. Random House.

Csikszentmihalyi, M. (2020). Finding flow: The psychology of engagement with everyday life. Hachette UK.

Csikszentmihalyi, M., Abuhamdeh, S., & Nakamura, J. (2014). Flow. In Flow and the foundations of positive psychology (pp. 227-238). Springer, Dordrecht.

de Sampaio Barros, M. F., Araújo-Moreira, F. M., Trevelin, L. C., & Radel, R. (2018). Flow experience and the mobilization of attentional resources. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 18(4), 810-823.

Dumont, C. (2016). From fear to flow. [video] (18:28 minutes) TEDxHasselt. Available on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wADq0pb7Nvs

Fan, H. L., Hou, S. T., & Lin, Y. H. (2019). Flow as a mediator between psychological ownership and employees’ subjective happiness. Journal of Managerial Psychology.

FightMediocrity. (2015). Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, animated summary book. [video] (5:20 minutes). Available on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8h6IMYRoCZw

Gudde, A. (2014). The power of flow. [video] (15:38 minutes). TEDxHaarlem. Available on: https://youtu.be/WqRRgz2o78w

Hamari, J., Shernoff, D. J., Rowe, E., Coller, B., Asbell-Clarke, J., & Edwards, T. (2016). Challenging games help students learn: An empirical study on engagement, flow and immersion in game-based learning. Computers in human behavior, 54, 170-179.

Harmat, L., Andersen, F. Ø., Ullén, F., Wright, J., & Sadlo, G. (Eds.). (2016). Flow experience: Empirical research and applications. Springer.

Harris, D. J., Vine, S. J., & Wilson, M. R. (2017). Is flow really effortless? The complex role of effortful attention. Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology, 6(1), 103.

Harris, D. J., Vine, S. J., & Wilson, M. R. (2019). An external focus of attention promotes flow experience during simulated driving. European journal of sport science, 19(6), 824-833.

Harris, D. J., Allen, K. L., Vine, S. J., & Wilson, M. R. (2021). A systematic review and meta-analysis of the relationship between flow states and performance. International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 1-29. https://doi.org/10.1080/1750984X.2021.1929402

Huskey, R., Wilcox, S., & Weber, R. (2018). Network neuroscience reveals distinct neuromarkers of flow during media use. Journal of Communication, 68(5), 872-895.

Ilies, R., Wagner, D., Wilson, K., Ceja, L., Johnson, M., DeRue, S., & Ilgen, D. (2017). Flow at work and basic psychological needs: Effects on well‐being. Applied Psychology, 66(1), 3-24.

Im, S. H., & Varma, S. (2018). Distorted time perception during flow as revealed by an attention-demanding cognitive task. Creativity Research Journal, 30(3), 295-304.

Jackman, P. C., Hawkins, R. M., Crust, L., & Swann, C. (2019). Flow states in exercise: A systematic review. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 101546.

Kawabata, M. (2018). Facilitating flow experience in physical education settings. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 38, 28-38.

Knierim, M. T., Rissler, R., Dorner, V., Maedche, A., & Weinhardt, C. (2018). The psychophysiology of flow: A systematic review of peripheral nervous system features. In Information Systems and Neuroscience (pp. 109-120). Springer, Cham.

Moore, C. (2019). What is flow in psychology? Definition and 10+ activities to induce flow. Positive Psychology.  [webpage].

Nakamura, J., & Csikszentmihalyi, M. (2014). The concept of flow. In Flow and the foundations of positive psychology (pp. 239-263). Springer, Dordrecht.

Pentti, S., Fagerlund, Å., & Nyström, P. (2019). Flourishing families: Effects of a positive psychology intervention on parental flow, engagement, meaning and hope. International Journal of Wellbeing, 9(4).

Perttula, A., Kiili, K., Lindstedt, A., & Tuomi, P. (2017). Flow experience in game based learning–a systematic literature review. International Journal of Serious Games, 4(1), 57-72.

Rich, G. (2016). Flow and optimal experience: methodological implications for internationalizingand Contextualizing a positive psychology concept. Part 1. Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Психология и педагогика, (2).

Rodríguez-Ardura, I., & Meseguer-Artola, A. (2018). Imagine, feel “there”, and flow! Immersive experiences on m-Facebook, and their affective and behavioural effects. Information Technology & People.

Sadlo, G. (2016). Towards a neurobiological understanding of reduced self-awareness during flow: An occupational science perspective. In Flow Experience (pp. 375-388). Springer, Cham.

Swann, C. (2016). Flow in sport. In Flow experience (pp. 51-64). Springer, Cham.

Swann, C., Crust, L., & Vella, S. A. (2017). New directions in the psychology of optimal performance in sport: flow and clutch states. Current opinion in psychology, 16, 48-53.

Tse, D. C., Fung, H. H., Nakamura, J., & Csikszentmihalyi, M. (2018). Teamwork and flow proneness mitigate the negative effect of excess challenge on flow state. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 13(3), 284-289.

Vallacher, R. R., & Nowak, A. (2007). Dynamical social psychology: Finding order in the flow of human experience. Social psychology: Handbook of basic principles, 2, 734-758.

van den Hout, J. J., & Davis, O. C. (2019). Team flow: The psychology of optimal collaboration. Springer Nature.

van den Hout, J. J., Gevers, J. M., Davis, O. C., & Weggeman, M. C. (2019). Developing and testing the team flow monitor (TFM). Cogent Psychology, 6(1), 1643962.

Vanderhaegen, B. (2016). Flow: The real driver of autonomy and cooperation. [video] (15:33 minutes). TEDxULB. Available of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnPy3uVc3xo

Wojtowicz, Z., Chater, N., & Loewenstein, G. (2019). Boredom and flow: An opportunity cost theory of attention-directing motivational states. Available at SSRN 3339123.

Yoshida, K., Ogawa, K., Mototani, T., Inagaki, Y., Sawamura, D., Ikoma, K., & Sakai, S. (2018). Flow experience enhances the effectiveness of attentional training: a pilot randomized controlled trial of patients with attention deficits after traumatic brain injury. NeuroRehabilitation, 43(2), 183-193.

Zager Kocjan, G., & Avsec, A. (2017). Bringing the psychology of situations into flow research: personality and situation characteristics as predictors of flow. Psihologijske teme, 26(1), 195-210.

Date of last update: 14-Dec-2022

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