Boredom - AllPsych https://allpsych.com/tag/boredom/ The Virtual Psychology Classroom Tue, 04 May 2021 05:31:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://allpsych.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/cropped-AllPsych-Favicon-32x32.png Boredom - AllPsych https://allpsych.com/tag/boredom/ 32 32 Having Many Possible Activities Nearby Can Increase Boredom https://allpsych.com/having-many-possible-activities-nearby-can-increase-boredom/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=having-many-possible-activities-nearby-can-increase-boredom Sat, 16 May 2020 09:00:58 +0000 https://allpsych.com/?p=2580 Boredom is an emotion that can be as much about what you aren’t doing as what you are. We tend to think that the less we do, the more bored we get. But a new study published in the journal Cognition and Emotion suggests an alternative interpretation: the more we don’t do, the more bored…

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]]> Boredom Proneness Predicts Teens’ Risk Behaviors https://allpsych.com/boredom-proneness-predicts-teens-risk-behaviors/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=boredom-proneness-predicts-teens-risk-behaviors Tue, 08 Aug 2017 12:58:43 +0000 https://allpsych.com/?p=1120 Nothing good happens when teenagers get bored – at least, that’s what a new study from researchers at University of Bologna in Italy suggests. In the study, published in Psychological Reports, researchers looked at how teenagers’ proneness to boredom influenced how those teens used their free time, paying special attention to whether teens tended to…

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