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This Element challenges prevailing views of boredom as a modern phenomenon and as an experience occurring inside our minds. It discusses the changing perspectives on boredom within psychology, psychiatry and psychoanalysis on both sides of the Atlantic in the last 100 years.
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A Cinema of Boredom: Heidegger, Cinematic Time and Spectatorship
Boredom, in cinema as well as in our everyday experience, is usually associated with a generalised loss of meaning or interest. Accordingly, boredom is often perceived as that which ought to be avoided.
Chiara Quaranta
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The effect of mind wandering on cognitive flexibility is mediated by boredom
Cognitive theory of boredom presumes that boredom, an important potential indicator for self-dysregulation, represents to be the result of attention failure.
Yu-Qin Deng +6 more
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Music and Boredom: A First Insight Into an Unexplored Relationship
While the positive effects of music listening have received much attention, insights into the negative effects are rare, such as the experience of boredom.
Julia Merrill, Tristan Niedecken
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Boredom at the border of philosophy: conceptual and ethical issues
Boredom is a topic in philosophy. Philosophers have offered close descriptions of the experience of boredom that should inform measurement and analysis of empirical results. Notable historical authors include Seneca, Martin Heidegger, and Theodor Adorno;
Peter Levine
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People Cheat on Task Performance When They Feel Bored: The Mediating Role of State Self-Efficacy
It is unclear whether the state of boredom is related to morality. The present study investigated how state boredom influenced cheating behaviors on task performance.
Chun Feng, Chuanjun Liu, Min Zhong
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The experience of effort in ADHD: a scoping review
BackgroundMental effort plays a critical role in regulating cognition. However, the experience of mental effort may differ for individuals with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), a disorder for which sustained mental effort ‘avoidance’ or ...
Danika Wagner +3 more
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Addiction to Boredom in Arthur Schopenhauer, Martin Heidegger and William Lovell, an Epistolary Novel by Ludwig Tieck [PDF]
: With the work of philosophers Arthur Schopenhauer and Martin Heidegger forming the theoretical basis, and Ludwig Tieck’s Romantic novel, William Lovell, as the literary source, this paper addresses the following questions: What is boredom and what ...
Tony Lack
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Though largely ignored by educators and researchers, boredom, an aversive emotion, is the hurdle for many translation learners to be professional. It is all the more important to unpack the boredom factors of Chinese foreign language major students in ...
Tingyu Zhang
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Research during the COVID-19 pandemic and prior outbreaks suggest that boredom is linked to poor compliance with critical lifesaving social distancing and quarantine guidelines, as well as to numerous mental health difficulties.
Veerpal Bambrah +2 more
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