Boredom Experience And Associated Behaviors

Author : Augustin de la Peña
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 3031326849

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Boredom Experience and Associated Behaviors by Augustin de la Peña Pdf

This book collects the lifelong research on boredom by American psychologist Augustin de la Peña (1942-2021). It focuses on the experience of boredom—and other similar states, including ennui, melancholy, laziness, interest, attention, and entertainment—and its associated behaviors. Offering an interdisciplinary chronicle of boredom, from Antiquity to the present, special attention is paid to its daily experience as a ubiquitous phenomenon that informs cultural and political actions that continue to shape our society. Dr. de la Peña describes the obsolescence of the Western Commonsense View of Reality to propose a Developmental Psychophysiological Approach to Reality, reconceptualizing boredom. The book theorizes the condition as both logical and emotional, an axis that has defined the sensibility of the modern era. This is a volume edited posthumously by Josefa Ros Velasco and Christian Parreno in homage to Augustin’s work and his invaluable contribution to the establishment of the field of boredom studies.

Author : Augustin de la Peña
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 645 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783031326851

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Boredom Experience and Associated Behaviors by Augustin de la Peña Pdf

This book collects the lifelong research on boredom by American psychologist Augustin de la Peña (1942-2021). It focuses on the experience of boredom—and other similar states, including ennui, melancholy, laziness, interest, attention, and entertainment—and its associated behaviors. Offering an interdisciplinary chronicle of boredom, from Antiquity to the present, special attention is paid to its daily experience as a ubiquitous phenomenon that informs cultural and political actions that continue to shape our society. Dr. de la Peña describes the obsolescence of the Western Commonsense View of Reality to propose a Developmental Psychophysiological Approach to Reality, reconceptualizing boredom. The book theorizes the condition as both logical and emotional, an axis that has defined the sensibility of the modern era. This is a volume edited posthumously by Josefa Ros Velasco and Christian Parreno in homage to Augustin’s work and his invaluable contribution to the establishment of the field of boredom studies.

Author : James Danckert,John D. Eastwood
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780674247055

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Out of My Skull by James Danckert,John D. Eastwood Pdf

A Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of the Year A Guardian “Best Book about Ideas” of the Year No one likes to be bored. Two leading psychologists explain what causes boredom and how to listen to what it is telling you, so you can live a more engaged life. We avoid boredom at all costs. It makes us feel restless and agitated. Desperate for something to do, we play games on our phones, retie our shoes, or even count ceiling tiles. And if we escape it this time, eventually it will strike again. But what if we listened to boredom instead of banishing it? Psychologists James Danckert and John Eastwood contend that boredom isn’t bad for us. It’s just that we do a bad job of heeding its guidance. When we’re bored, our minds are telling us that whatever we are doing isn’t working—we’re failing to satisfy our basic psychological need to be engaged and effective. Too many of us respond poorly. We become prone to accidents, risky activities, loneliness, and ennui, and we waste ever more time on technological distractions. But, Danckert and Eastwood argue, we can let boredom have the opposite effect, motivating the change we need. The latest research suggests that an adaptive approach to boredom will help us avoid its troubling effects and, through its reminder to become aware and involved, might lead us to live fuller lives. Out of My Skull combines scientific findings with everyday observations to explain an experience we’d like to ignore, but from which we have a lot to learn. Boredom evolved to help us. It’s time we gave it a chance.

Author : Maik Bieleke,Wanja Wolff,Corinna Martarelli
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781040018262

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The Routledge International Handbook of Boredom by Maik Bieleke,Wanja Wolff,Corinna Martarelli Pdf

This comprehensive text is a unique handbook dedicated to research on boredom. The book brings together leading contributors from across three continents and numerous fields to provide an interdisciplinary exploration of boredom, its theoretical underpinnings, its experiential properties, and the applied contexts in which it occurs. Boredom is often viewed as a mental state with little utility, though recent research suggests that it can be a powerful motivator of human behavior that shapes our actions in many ways. The book examines boredom from a range of perspectives and is comprised of three parts. Part I delves into the theoretical approaches to boredom, presenting methods for its measurement, explaining when and why boredom occurs, and scrutinizing the impact it has on our behavior. Part II focuses on the psychological and neural properties of boredom and its associations with a multitude of mental and interpersonal processes, such as self-control, mind-wandering, flow, and aggression. Part III presents boredom in practical contexts like school and work, and sheds light on its role for health-related behaviors, psychosocial well-being, and aesthetic experiences. The book concludes by summarizing the state of boredom research, identifying promising areas for future research, and providing directions for how research on boredom can be advanced. As the authoritative book on boredom, this handbook is an essential resource for students and researchers of psychology, sociology, education, sport science, and computer science.

Author : Gayle L. Macklem
Publisher : Springer
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783319131207

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Boredom in the Classroom by Gayle L. Macklem Pdf

This brief synthesizes current findings on the many aspects of chronic student boredom, its relationship with negative academic, emotional, and health outcomes, and what professionals can do to best address it. Citing the complexity of this common student emotion, the author spotlights boredom susceptibility during the critical K-12 years. The brief analyzes cognitive and emotional attributes of boredom and identifies emotional skills that can be strengthened to counteract it. In addition, the volume features strategies for educators and school counselors to reduce boredom, both internally and in class. This stimulating volume: Argues that boredom shouldn't be ignored or dismissed as a passing phase. Examines various types of boredom as well as gender and cultural differences. Explores boredom in the contexts of anxiety and depression and in non-school situations. Provides theory on causes of boredom in students. Details how student self-regulation, motivation, and engagement can be improved. Describes specific roles teachers and mental health professionals can play in controlling boredom. Boredom in the Classroom is an essential resource for researchers, scientist-practitioners, clinicians, and graduate students in the fields of child and school psychology, educational psychology, social work, and related disciplines.

Author : Josefa Ros Velasco
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-23
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783030263959

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Boredom Is in Your Mind by Josefa Ros Velasco Pdf

This book offers a unique perspective on the topic of boredom, with chapters written by diverse representatives of various mental health disciplines and philosophical approaches. On one hand, studying boredom involves the mental processes of attention, memory, perception, creativity, or language use; on the other, boredom can be understood by taking into account many pathological conditions such as depression, stress, and anxiety. This book seeks to fill the knowledge gap in research by discussing boredom through an interdisciplinary dialogue, giving a comprehensive overview of the past and current literature within boredom studies, while discussing the neural bases and causes of boredom and its potential consequences and implications for individual and social well-being. Chapters explore the many facets of boredom, including: Understanding the cognitive-affective mechanisms underlying experiences of boredom Philosophical perspectives on boredom, self-consciousness, and narrative How boredom shapes both basic and complex human thoughts, feelings, and behavior Analyzing boredom within Freudian and Lacanian frameworks Boredom Is in Your Mind: A Shared Psychological-Philosophical Approach is a pioneering work that brings together threads of cross-disciplinary boredom research into one comprehensive resource. It is relevant for graduate students and researchers in myriad intersecting disciplines, among them cognitive psychology, cognitive neurosciences, and clinical psychology, as well as philosophy, logic, religion, and other areas of the humanities and social sciences.

Author : Andreas Elpidorou
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-31
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781786615398

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The Moral Psychology of Boredom by Andreas Elpidorou Pdf

Whether we like it or not, boredom is a major part of human life. It permeates our personal, social, practical, and moral existence. It shapes our world by demarcating what is engaging, interesting, or meaningful from what is not. It also sets us in motion insofar as its presence can motivate us to act in a plethora of ways. Indeed, in our search for engagement, interest, or meaning, our responses to boredom straddle the line between the good and the bad, the beneficial and the harmful, the creative and the mundane. In this volume, world-renowned researchers come together to explore a neglected but crucially important aspect of boredom: its relationship to morality. Does boredom cause individuals to commit immoral acts? Does it affect our moral judgment? Does the frequent or chronic experience boredom make us worse people? Is the experience of boredom something that needs to be avoided at all costs? Or can boredom be, at least sometimes, a solution and a positive moral force? The Moral Psychology of Boredom sets out to answer these and other timely questions.

Author : George Fink
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780128011379

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Stress: Concepts, Cognition, Emotion, and Behavior by George Fink Pdf

Stress: Concepts, Cognition, Emotion, and Behavior: Handbook in Stress Series, Volume 1, examines stress and its management in the workplace and is targeted at scientific and clinical researchers in biomedicine, psychology, and some aspects of the social sciences. The audience is appropriate faculty and graduate and undergraduate students interested in stress and its consequences. The format allows access to specific self-contained stress subsections without the need to purchase the whole nine volume Stress handbook series. This makes the publication much more affordable than the previously published four volume Encyclopedia of Stress (Elsevier 2007) in which stress subsections were arranged alphabetically and therefore required purchase of the whole work. This feature will be of special significance for individual scientists and clinicians, as well as laboratories. In this first volume of the series, the primary focus will be on general stress concepts as well as the areas of cognition, emotion, and behavior. Offers chapters with impressive scope, covering topics including the interactions between stress, cognition, emotion and behaviour Features articles carefully selected by eminent stress researchers and prepared by contributors representing outstanding scholarship in the field Includes rich illustrations with explanatory figures and tables Includes boxed call out sections that serve to explain key concepts and methods Allows access to specific self-contained stress subsections without the need to purchase the whole nine volume Stress handbook series

Author : Sandi Mann
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781472136008

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The Science of Boredom by Sandi Mann Pdf

Are we living in an age where we are more boredom-prone? Or are other people boring us? Or could we be that boring person?! In our current information age, we are constantly connected to technology, and have so many varied ways to spend our leisure time that we should all surely never know what boredom feels like. Yet, boredom appears to be on the rise; it seems that the more we have to stimulate us, the more stimulation we crave. In a quest to relieve our boredom, we engage in dangerous risk-taking - from extreme sports to drugs to gambling to anti-social behaviour, or we overindulge in shopping or eating. The Science of Boredom explores the causes and consequences of boredom in the fast-paced twenty-first century. Parents are desperate to keep their children entertained during every waking moment, the education system is geared towards interactivity, and attention spans are dropping as we use multiple devices at all times. But the world of work can be increasingly repetitive and routine, and we are losing the ability to tolerate this everyday tedium. Using Sandi Mann's own ground-breaking research into boredom, this book tells the story of how we act, react and cope when we are bored, and argues that there is a positive side to boredom. It can be a catalyst for humour, fun, reflection, creativity and inspiration. The radical solution to the 'boredom problem' is to harness it rather than try to avoid it. Allowing yourself time away from constant stimuli can enrich your life. We should all embrace our boredom and see the upside of our downtime.

Author : Mirosław Pawlak,Joanna Zawodniak,Mariusz Kruk
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783030507695

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Boredom in the Foreign Language Classroom by Mirosław Pawlak,Joanna Zawodniak,Mariusz Kruk Pdf

The book focuses on boredom, a construct that has been explored in educational psychology but has received only scant attention from second language acquisition researchers. Although recent years have seen a growing interest in positive emotions in second or foreign language learning and teaching, negative emotions are always present in the classroom and they deserve to be investigated in their own right. The theoretical part provides an overview of the construct of boredom (e.g., definitions, types, empirical studies in the L2 classroom). The empirical part reports the findings of an empirical study which aimed to examine the changes in the levels of boredom experienced by a group of English majors in English classes and identify the factors accounting for such changes. The book closes with a discussion of directions for further research as well as some pedagogic implications.

Author : K. Ann Renninger,Suzanne E. Hidi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1172 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781316832479

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The Cambridge Handbook of Motivation and Learning by K. Ann Renninger,Suzanne E. Hidi Pdf

Written by leading researchers in educational and social psychology, learning science, and neuroscience, this edited volume is suitable for a wide-academic readership. It gives definitions of key terms related to motivation and learning alongside developed explanations of significant findings in the field. It also presents cohesive descriptions concerning how motivation relates to learning, and produces a novel and insightful combination of issues and findings from studies of motivation and/or learning across the authors' collective range of scientific fields. The authors provide a variety of perspectives on motivational constructs and their measurement, which can be used by multiple and distinct scientific communities, both basic and applied.

Author : Linda Deal
Publisher : PRUFROCK PRESS INC.
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 1593631359

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The Boredom Solution by Linda Deal Pdf

Educational title for gifted and advanced learners.

Author : Antonio Baena Extremera,Antonio Granero-Gallegos,Raul Fernández Baños
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889668236

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Psychodidactic Variables and Academic Performance in Physical Education by Antonio Baena Extremera,Antonio Granero-Gallegos,Raul Fernández Baños Pdf

Author : Peter Toohey
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780300172164

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Boredom by Peter Toohey Pdf

In the first book to argue for the benefits of boredom, Peter Toohey dispels the myth that it's simply a childish emotion or an existential malaise like Jean-Paul Sartre's nausea. He shows how boredom is, in fact, one of our most common and constructive emotions and is an essential part of the human experience. This informative and entertaining investigation of boredom--what it is and what it isn't, its uses and its dangers--spans more than 3,000 years of history and takes readers through fascinating neurological and psychological theories of emotion, as well as recent scientific investigations, to illustrate its role in our lives. There are Australian aboriginals and bored Romans, Jeffrey Archer and caged cockatoos, Camus and the early Christians, Durer and Degas. Toohey also explores the important role that boredom plays in popular and highbrow culture and how over the centuries it has proven to be a stimulus for art and literature. Toohey shows that boredom is a universal emotion experienced by humans throughout history and he explains its place, and value, in today's world. "Boredom: A Lively History "is vital reading for anyone interested in what goes on when supposedly nothing happens.

Author : Martyn B. A. Dyer-Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1417485302

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The Nature of Boredom by Martyn B. A. Dyer-Smith Pdf

Though boredom is considered a universal experience "there is no agreed definition or well-developed instrument for measuring it, and there is no comprehensive theory of its causes" (Fisher 1993). Nevertheless the bored are thought to have worse work records, more accidents, higher absenteeism, and to show a host of unfortunate behaviours from delinquency to substance abuse. This research shows the existing literature of boredom to be inconsistent or inconclusive. Field observation of boring and repetitive work suggested a new model of the behaviours that are thought to be boredom related. In this model, requisite mental resource allocation is assumed to progressively decrease as a task becomes more and more familiar. Natural inertia in the allocation system results in temporary misalignments between allocated resource and task-demand. It is these misalignments that cause boredtype behaviour. The awareness of these misalignments may register as felt-boredom. The predictions of this Inertial Resource Allocation Model (IRAM) were tested in a series of experiments. It was shown that misallocation of mental resource can be reliably measured, that it is individually variable, and that it does indeed predict behaviours, notably work quality and absence, that are considered boredom sensitive. Misallocation of mental resource is proposed as a sufficient condition for inducing 'boredtype behaviour'. However, though necessary, it is not sufficient, to induce 'felt-boredom'. The same mismatch may be interpreted differently in other contexts. The conclusion is that boredom is too vague a notion to be useful to Psychology. However, a measurable and operationally defined feature of mental functioning -- mental inertia -- can explain all the phenomena once associated with the idea of boredom.