Why boredom is anything but boring

Koerth-Baker, Maggie

doi:10.1038/529146a

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“…Perhaps we should let people choose to be manipulated, so long as the outcome is positive. 73 But what constitutes a positive outcome? Fitbit has come under criticism for data collection and storage, raising concerns about privacy.…”

Section: B Integration Of Robots As Companionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

'Who's Johnny?' Anthropomorphic Framing in Human-Robot Interaction, Integration, and Policy

Darling

2015

SSRN Journal

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Section: B Integration Of Robots As Companionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

'Who's Johnny?' Anthropomorphic Framing in Human-Robot Interaction, Integration, and Policy

Darling

2015

SSRN Journal

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“…In latter blocks, it seemed that it was boring to just wait till the end. Thus, to dispel boredom, participants chose to do something to arouse themselves, which was similar to taking electric shocks in a previous research ( Koerth-Baker, 2016 ).…”

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“…The account of boredom suggests that superfluous behaviors may derive from an individual’s tendencies to dispel boredom, which is perceived to be torturous ( Koerth-Baker, 2016 ). Koerth-Baker (2016) found in their study that when the participants were told to wait for a while, with nothing to do, and they had the chance to receive electric shocks, participants chose to give themselves an electric shock. Receiving painful electric shocks was superfluous, since the task did not require the participants to do this.…”

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The Gilding-the-Lily Effect: Exploratory Behavior Energized by Curiosity

Shen

Liu

et al. 2020

Front. Psychol.

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The widespread metaphor "to gild the lily" suggests that people usually engage in superfluous behaviors. Understanding the cognitive mechanism underlying superfluous behaviors helps individuals to reduce possible waste and even disasters incurred by unnecessary actions. Here, we assumed that curiosity for new information partly pushes people to make needless efforts. This hypothesis was tested through three experiments. In three experiments, we found that when participants knew that expending more efforts than task requirements brought no better results, they still exerted various exploratory activities to fulfill curiosity. These results imply that the impulsion to satisfy the desire for information could partly drive individuals to indulge in unnecessary activities over mission demands. Present research improves the comprehension of irrational superfluous behavior and provides directions to reduce loss and waste caused by gilding the lily.

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“…Nevertheless, in the current times, the term boredom is implicated in all sorts of situations, events, people, behaviors and things. For example, from traumatic brain injury to learning ability, boredom has developed to be an extremely interesting field of study to the scientists (Koerth-Baker, 2016). Similarly, the repetitive nature of job related activities performed by the employees at work attracts the attention of organizational behavior researchers, particularly in connection with boredom and boredom susceptibility.…”

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The Expressions and Representations of Workplace Boredom: A Study on Social Media Literature

2021

IJMRES

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The study explores how people express and represent their workplace boredom on one of the major social media websites, Instagram. With regard to this, four popular hashtags, alluding to workplace boredom, were thoroughly searched for their content (e.g., 531 thousand plus posts), and eight themes were identified for the analysis based on the most common expressions and representations of workplace boredom by the people on Instagram. Thus, the study implies the power of social media used by the people to vigorously express and represent one of the ostensible adverse realities of their workplaces, boredom, which they may not be able to voice otherwise. Moreover, as the study has been conducted in the year 2021, it may be significant with regard to the pandemic which led millions of people to bring their work or offices at homes. Thus, such a change in the context of work (e.g., work-from-home) may have affected the people’s expressions and representations of workplace boredom. Similarly, the self expressions and self-representations of boredom at work by the people may attract the contemporary researchers to construct more prevalent definitions of workplace boredom in their future studies

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Why boredom is anything but boring

Cited by 14 publications

References 14 publications

'Who's Johnny?' Anthropomorphic Framing in Human-Robot Interaction, Integration, and Policy

'Who's Johnny?' Anthropomorphic Framing in Human-Robot Interaction, Integration, and Policy

The Gilding-the-Lily Effect: Exploratory Behavior Energized by Curiosity

The Expressions and Representations of Workplace Boredom: A Study on Social Media Literature

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