The origins of boredom

Y Lin, EC Westgate - 2024 - academic.oup.com
This chapter argues that boredom provides an evolutionary solution to minimizing prediction
error by incentivizing learning. While reducing prediction error is crucial for cognitive …

Aggressive behavior, boredom, and protective factors among college students during closed-off management of the COVID-19 pandemic in China

Y Li, X Chu - Frontiers in psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background Chinese colleges have implemented strict closed-off management in response
to the outbreak of a new variant of the new coronavirus, Omicron. But such management …

On the Relation of Boredom and Aggression

CET Artak, S Pfattheicher - The Routledge International …, 2024 - taylorfrancis.com
In this chapter, we discuss how aggression is cure of boredom, with aggressive
entertainment pleasing both the ancient Romans of the grand Colosseum as well as the …

Essays on the economic psychology of well-being

S Pirla Lopez - 2022 - tdx.cat
This thesis consists of three chapters that improve our knowledge of how income shapes
well-being. Chapter 1 (“Measuring Affect Dynamics: An Empirical Framework”) presents an …

[PDF][PDF] Author Note

T Li, HK Fok, HH Fung - 2010 - researchgate.net
The purpose of this study was to analyze the current status of integrated physical education
(PE) in general PE classes at elementary schools in Hong Kong. A questionnaire and cover …