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Playing with tension:national charisma and disgrace at Euro 2012 [PDF]

, 2013
By the time of Euro 2012, deepening tensions of nationalism and internal social struggles were developing across Europe in worsening conditions of systemic crisis.
Law, Alex
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Boredom Prone or Nothing to Do? Distinguishing Between State and Trait Leisure Boredom and Its Association with Substance Use in South African Adolescents [PDF]

Leisure Sciences, 2015
Reducing adolescent substance use is important in South Africa, a developing nation with increasing adolescent substance use, lack of leisure/recreation opportunities, and high rates of adolescent discretionary time. Previous research suggests leisure boredom and adolescent substance use co-occur in this setting.
Weybright, Elizabeth H, Caldwell, Linda L, Ram, Nilam, Smith, Edward A, Wegner, Lisa   +4 more
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Filling the void: boredom’s associations with hoarding symptom severity

Discover Psychology
In hoarding disorder, features including attentional difficulties and emotion dysregulation can contribute to the core symptoms of clutter, difficulties discarding, and excessive acquisition.
Emily R. Weiss, McWelling Todman, David M. Roane   +2 more
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Speaker-independent emotion recognition exploiting a psychologically-inspired binary cascade classification schema

, 2012
In this paper, a psychologically-inspired binary cascade classification schema is proposed for speech emotion recognition. Performance is enhanced because commonly confused pairs of emotions are distinguishable from one another.
A. Austermann, B. Schuller, B. Schuller, B. Schuller, B. Schuller, B. Schuller, B. Schuller, B. Yang, C. Busso, C. M. Lee, C. Nass, D. Bitouk, D. J. C. MacKay, D. Ververidis, D. Ververidis, D. Watson, E. Benetos, E. Benetos, E. Fersini, E. I. Konstantinidis, F. Burkhardt, F. Burkhardt, Fabio Paternò, H. Altun, H. Gunes, H. K. Mishra, H. Mixdorff, H. P. Espinosa, I. Guyon, I. Guyon, I. R. Murray, J. D. Markel, J. Hirschberg, J. Pittermann, K. Dai, K. R. Scherer, L. B. Jackson, M. Ayadi El, M. Kotti, M. Kotti, M. M. Sondhi, M. Pantic, M. Pantic, Margarita Kotti, N. Sato, N. Vanello, P. Boersma, P. Ekman, P. Ekman, P. N. Juslin, P. Ruvolo, P. Zervas, R. A. Calvo, R. Cowie, R. Tato, R. W. Picard, S. Chandaka, S. Ntalampiras, T. Iliou, T. L. Pao, T. P. Kostoulas, T. Vogt, W. Bosma, W. Minker, Z. Inanoglu, Z. Zeng   +65 more
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Grand theft algorithm: purposeful play, appropriated play and aberrant players [PDF]

, 2008
"Copyright ACM, 2008. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in MindTrek: Proceedings of the 12th international conference on ...
Gazzard, Alison
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Adapting to the pandemic: longitudinal effects of social restrictions on time perception and boredom during the Covid-19 pandemic in Germany

Scientific Reports, 2022
With the Covid-19 pandemic, many governments introduced nationwide lockdowns that disrupted people’s daily routines and promoted social isolation. We applied a longitudinal online survey to investigate the mid-term effects of the mandated restrictions on
Marlene Wessels, Nariman Utegaliyev, Christoph Bernhard, Robin Welsch, Daniel Oberfeld, Sven Thönes, Christoph von Castell   +6 more
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STATE BOREDOM IN ONLINE CLASSROOMS: A STUDY OF NOVICE AND EXPERIENCED IRANIAN EFL TEACHERS

TEFLIN Journal
Teachers and students frequently experience positive and negative emotions in EFL classrooms. Boredom is a negative feeling whose detrimental influence on various aspects of the learning process and achievement has been well established.
Masoomeh Estaji, Seyedeh Azadeh Sadr
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Academic Boredom in the Light of some Variables of Academically Excellent Intermediate Stage Students

مجلة كلية التربية للبنات, 2020
Academic boredom is one of the most emotional problems that arouse an individual's fatigueness and lowers his interest. This is because of the environment's low efficiency and of spending long monotonous time.
Zahra Saad Al- Abboudi, Intisar Kamal Al-Anni   +1 more
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Situational meaninglessness and state boredom: Cross-sectional and experience-sampling findings [PDF]

Motivation and Emotion, 2018
Theories of boredom assert that boredom is a product of situational meaninglessness. We conducted two studies to test if the perceived meaningfulness of a situation is associated with state boredom, above and beyond sadness, personality traits, and boredom proneness.
Chan, Christian S., Van Tilburg, Wijnand A. P., Igou, Eric R., Poon, Cyanea Y. S., Tam, Katy Y. Y., Wong, Venus U. T., Cheung, S. K.   +6 more
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Modeling fashion as an emergent collective behavior of bored individuals

Scientific Reports, 2023
Boredom is an aversive mental state that is typically evoked by monotony and drives individuals to seek novel information. Despite this effect on individual behavior, the consequences of boredom for collective behavior remain elusive.
Johannes P.-H. Seiler, Simon Rumpel
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