This comprehensive text brings together leading contributors from across three continents and numerous fields to provide an interdisciplinary exploration of boredom, its theoretical underpinnings, experiential properties, and the applied contexts in which it occurs. It examines boredom from a range of perspectives.
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, 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 behaviour that shapes our actions in many ways. The book examines boredom from a range of perspectives and is comprised of three parts. The first section 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 behaviour. The second section 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. Lastly, the third section presents boredom in practical contexts like school and work, and sheds light on its role for health-related behaviours, psychosocial wellbeing, and aesthetic experiences. The book concludes by summarising 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.
01. Boredom is not Boring Part 1: Foundations
02. Same Same but
Different What is Boredom Actually
03. Methodological Approaches to Boredom
and its Measurement
04. The Nature and Value of Boredom
05. The Function of
Boredom: Driving us to Explore the New and Different
06. Boredom: A
Control-Value Theory Approach
07. Boredom and the Quest for Meaning
08. A
Brief History of the Psychology of Boredom Part 2: Correlates
09. On the
Virtues of Fragile Self-Control: Boredom as a Catalyst for Adaptive Behavior
Regulation
10. Mind-wandering as an Exploratory Response to Boredom
11. Flow
as an Experience Beyond Boredom
12. Boredom on the Brain: What can
Neuroimaging tell us about Boredom?
13. Boredom Proneness
14. On the Relation
of Boredom and Aggression Part 3: Contexts
15. Academic Boredom
16. Boredom
at Work: A Systematic Review of the Causes and Consequences of Work-Related
Boredom
17. Adolescent boredom in Leisure: Risks and Opportunities for
Healthy Development
18. Boredom, Food Consumption and Weight
19. Boredom in
Sports and Exercise
20. Boredom and the Psychosocial Well-being of Persons
Experiencing Homelessness
21. Aesthetic boredom
22. Boredom Intervention:
Recommendations, Experiences, and Preliminary Evidence
23. Overview of
Current Directions in Boredom Research
Maik Bieleke received his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Konstanz (Germany), where he currently works as a senior researcher. He focuses on motivation, effort, and performance, with an emphasis on the interplay of self-control and boredom as guiding signals of human behavior.
Dr. Wanja Wolff studied psychology at the University of Konstanz, earned his doctoral degree in psychology from the University of Potsdam, and has then worked as a senior researcher at the University of Konstanz. Since 2024, he is a Professor for Sport Psychology at the University of Hamburg where he heads the Dynamics of Human Performance Regulation Laboratory (DHPRL). The DHPRL uses psychological, neuroscientific, and physiological methods to investigate how people regulate performance in different contexts.
Corinna S. Martarelli received her Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Bern (Switzerland). She is currently Associate Professor for Methods and Statistics at the Faculty of Psychology of UniDistance Suisse. She carries out research in the field of cognitive psychology in the areas of memory and learning, with a focus on boredom and mind-wandering.
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