Laboratory psychology definitions shaped how everyone conceives attention today.

Evidence

This narrow way of thinking about “attention,” which arose in the experimental psychology laboratories of the long twentieth century, has come to shape the way that all of us think about (and use) our attention. To put it bluntly, human attention was sliced and diced in those laboratories, en route to being priced in the marketplace of the attention economy. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 123

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The measured attention of lab science was defined by duration and person-machine coupling. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 156; Laboratory-defined attention was designed for instrumental task selection from the start.; The ‘attention span’ concept is a historically recent, lab-derived construct. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 133 (+6 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The measured attention of lab science was defined by duration and person-machine coupling. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 156; Laboratory-defined attention was designed for instrumental task selection from the start.; The ‘attention span’ concept is a historically recent, lab-derived construct. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 133 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Laypeople know as much about attention as scientists do #complicates (0.72) — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 144