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Bug or feature? Boredom feels aversive and this is why it matters

2024-05-13

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<p>In class, during exercise, at work: boredom is an everyday experience that is generally regarded as an annoying and rather useless nuisance. In keeping with this attested uselessness, boredom had not gathered much research interest for a long time. Fortunately, this has changed and new and exciting research paints a different picture of boredom, highlighting its function and its relevance for human behavior. In...

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Literature Corpus work: ecc16942-c57d-5fb6-8e89-e67ffbf20e3a
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/hmj9d

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