The good of boredom

By Andreas Elpidorou. 2018

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Abstract I argue that the state of boredom (i.e., the transitory and non-pathological experience of boredom) should be understood to be a regulatory psychological state that has the capacity to promote our well-being by contributing to personal growth and to the construction (or reconstruction) of a meaningful life.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology

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Citations in the corpus

• Academic boredom, engagement and the achievement of undergraduate students at university: a review and synthesis of relevant literature (2018, background): “protection from the discomfort and frustration of feeling bored itself (Bench and Lench 2013, 2018; Willis 2014; Elpidorou 2017).”