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 …

When the original Visible Learning® was published in 2008, it instantly became a publishing
sensation. Interest in the book was unparalleled; it sold out in days and was described by …

In an effort to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, countries around the world
have employed non-pharmaceutical containment measures. The effectiveness of such …

Does our mood change as time passes? This question is central to behavioural and affective
science, yet it remains largely unexamined. To investigate, we intermixed subjective …

Breathwork is an understudied school of practices involving intentional respiratory
modulation to induce an altered state of consciousness (ASC). We simultaneously …

Children who emotionally eat (EE) tend to consume palatable foods that are high in sugar
and fat. How EE develops remains unclear, but children's temperament and parental feeding …

When studying affect, cognition, and behavior, scientists often use “artificial tasks in sensory
and socially deprived environments”(Shamay-Tsoory & Mendelsohn, 2019). While such …

Boredom poses a fascinating riddle: Although it is a ubiquitous experience, lay people and
researchers often struggle with expressing what boredom actually is, and how it should be …

I identify and then aim to resolve a tension between the psychological and existential
conceptions of boredom. The dominant view in psychology is that boredom is an emotional …

This chapter argues that boredom provides an evolutionary solution to minimizing prediction
error by incentivizing learning. While reducing prediction error is crucial for cognitive …