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Psychological Time as Information: The case of Boredom

Frontiers in Psychology, 2014
The flow of time is experienced by humans although the exact nature of time is not well understood. The importance of time in human's life is not in dispute and is reflected by several dimensions like duration, which is best representing the naive ...
Dan eZakay
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Investigating User Needs for Bio-sensing and Affective Wearables [PDF]

, 2016
Bio-sensing wearables are currently advancing to provide users with a lot of information about their physiological and affective states. However, relatively little is known about users' interest in acquiring, sharing and receiving this information and ...
Alt, Florian, Hassib, Mariam, Khamis, Mohamed, Schneegass, Stefan, Shirazi, Alireza Sahami   +4 more
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Boredom signals deviation from a cognitive homeostatic set point

Communications Psychology
Boredom is the feeling of wanting but failing to engage the mind and can be conceived as one among many signals of suboptimal utilization of cognitive and neural resources.
Chantal Trudel, Evan F. Risko, John D. Eastwood, Wijnand A. P. van Tilburg, Andreas Elpidorou, James Danckert   +5 more
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Evidence to Suggest that Copulatory Vocalizations in Women Are Not a Reflexive Consequence of Orgasm [PDF]

, 2011
The current studies were conducted in order to investigate the phenomenon of copulatory vocalizations and their relationship to orgasm in women. Data were collected from 71 sexually active heterosexual women (M age = 21.68 years ± .52) recruited from the
Brewer, Gayle, Hendrie, Colin A.
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In Defence of Inactivity: Boredom, Serenity, and Rest in Heaven

TheoLogica, 2018
“Dynamic” views of heaven are currently popular, in which the blessed spend eternity progressing and developing, as opposed to “static” views, in which they do not.
Jonathan Hill
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Offenders’ perceptions of the UK prison smoking ban [PDF]

, 2019
Purpose Despite overall reductions in levels of smoking in the UK, rates of offender smoking remain high. In 2016, it was announced that prisons in England and Wales would gradually introduce a smoking ban.
Davies, Glyn, Dugdale, Stephanie, Elison-Davies, Sarah, Povey, Rachel, Semper, Heather, Ward, Jonathan   +5 more
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State boredom and behavioral addictions: Evidence of psychometric adequacy for the Short Form of the Multidimensional State Boredom Scale with young adults

, 2022
The hypothesis that State boredom (SB) – the experience of boredom in the moment – can be considered as one of the risk factors for engaging in addictive behaviors has been further supported by the studies conducted during the COVID-19 related lockdown. Moreover, the issue of gender-related differences and similarities in SB is in debate.
Maria Anna Donati, Giacomo Ciocca, Lilybeth Fontanesi, Emmanuele A. Jannini, Carola Beccari, &, Caterina Primi   +6 more
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Sound and Silence: The Effects of Environmental Conditions on State Boredom in an Online Study during the COVID-19 Pandemic. [PDF]

Behav Sci (Basel), 2022
Anderson AJ, McMeen CE, Perone S, Weybright EH.   +3 more
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Relationships between Dark Triad and negative emotions during COVID-19 lockdown: The chain mediating roles of negative coping and state boredom. [PDF]

Curr Psychol, 2022
Yang M, Qu C, Zhang Z, Guo H, Guo X, Yang L, Tian K, Hu W.   +7 more
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Forms of World Literature and the Taipei Poetry Festival

, 2017
In poetry anthologies and works of literary criticism, the authority to select which literature can become “world” literature often lies with a single editor or theorist.
ADMUSSEN, Nick
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