SAGE was founded in 1965 by Sara Miller McCune to support the dissemination of usable
knowledge by publishing innovative and high-quality research and teaching content. Today …

The paper aims at providing concise but thorough presentation of the state of art in the
emerging field of boredom studies evidencing boredom significance to provide researchers …

A Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of the Year A Guardian “Best Book about Ideas” of the
Year No one likes to be bored. Two leading psychologists explain what causes boredom …

The lives and experiences of those on probation supervision are often invisible and
dismissed as unimportant or worse as 'an easy option'. This article reviews two different …

Boredom is functional. Simplistically, it operates as a signal to do something other than what
you are doing now. But it is more nuanced than that. Animals must strike a balance between …

In this article we analyse the significance of silence in qualitative interviews with 36
individuals interviewed about high-risk, illegal activities. We describe how silence expresses …

Purpose Over the coming decades, the widespread application of social distancing creates
challenges for the urban planning and design profession. This article aims to address the …

In this article, young people's hypermasculine performances of gender in a Danish institution
for young offenders are analyzed. Through the ethnographic method of detailed …

“This book was written late in the North American night, with the rumbling thuds and
booming train horns of the nearby rail yard echoing through my windows, reminding me of …

Boredom in the workplace is not uncommon, and has been discussed widely in the
academic literature in relation to the associated costs to individuals and organizations …