Activity achievement emotions and academic performance: A meta-analysis

J Camacho-Morles, GR Slemp, R Pekrun… - Educational Psychology …, 2021 - Springer
Achievement emotions are emotions linked to academic, work, or sports achievement
activities (activity emotions) and their success and failure outcomes (outcome emotions) …

In search of boredom: Beyond a functional account

J Danckert, A Elpidorou - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2023 - cell.com
Boredom has been characterized as a crisis of meaning, a failure of attention, and a call to
action. Yet as a self-regulatory signal writ-large, we are still left with the question of what …

Boring thoughts and bored minds: The MAC model of boredom and cognitive engagement.

EC Westgate, TD Wilson - Psychological Review, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
What is boredom? We review environmental, attentional, and functional theories and
present a new model that describes boredom as an affective indicator of unsuccessful …

Perceived teacher support and creative self-efficacy: The mediating roles of autonomous motivation and achievement emotions in Chinese junior high school students

X Liu, SY Gong, H Zhang, Q Yu, Z Zhou - Thinking Skills and Creativity, 2021 - Elsevier
Teacher support plays a role in promoting students' motivations in the academic settings, but
little is known about how teacher support impacts students' creative self-efficacy. The …

The temporal dynamics of opportunity costs: A normative account of cognitive fatigue and boredom.

M Agrawal, MG Mattar, JD Cohen, ND Daw - Psychological review, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Cognitive fatigue and boredom are two phenomenological states that reflect overt task
disengagement. In this article, we present a rational analysis of the temporal structure of …

Understanding the confounding effect of fluency in divergent thinking scores: revisiting average scores to quantify artifactual correlation.

B Forthmann, C Szardenings… - Psychology of Aesthetics …, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
Divergent thinking tasks are the cornerstone of creative thinking assessment. Besides
fluency, the number of generated ideas, several other scores have been used to measure …

Simple yet wise? Students' creative engagement benefits from a daily intervention.

A Zielińska, I Lebuda, M Karwowski - Translational Issues in …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Is it possible to strengthen students' engagement in creative activities using simple everyday
tasks focused on creative thinking, self-efficacy, or valuing creativity? The present article …

Bored by interest: How intrinsic motivation in one task can reduce performance on other tasks

J Shin, AM Grant - Academy of Management Journal, 2019 - journals.aom.org
While existing research has demonstrated that intrinsic motivation can increase task
performance, jobs are composed of multiple tasks, and it remains to be seen how intrinsic …

Lost by definition: Why boredom matters for psychology and society

EC Westgate, B Steidle - Social and Personality Psychology …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Long overlooked, boredom has drawn increasing attention across multiple subfields of
psychology (including clinical, developmental, educational, cognitive, and industrial …

Measuring original thinking in elementary school: Development and validation of a computational psychometric approach.

S Acar, D Dumas, P Organisciak… - Journal of Educational …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Creativity is highly valued in both education and the workforce, but assessing and
developing creativity can be difficult without psychometrically robust and affordable tools …