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- Title
Does state boredom cause failures of attention? Examining the relations between trait boredom, state boredom, and sustained attention.
- Authors
Hunter, Andrew; Eastwood, John D.
- Abstract
Boredom is an important personal and social problem, but the phenomena itself remains poorly understood. Recent work has shown that boredom is highly related to attention, and that this relationship may be instrumental in revealing boredom’s causes and consequences. In this paper, experimental findings on trait boredom, state boredom, and sustained attention performance are presented. We demonstrate that trait boredom uniquely predicts sustained attention performance, over and above depression and self-report attention problems. We also present exploratory findings consistent with the claim that attention failures may cause boredom and that sustained attention tasks may themselves be boring. Discussion of each of these findings, and potential ramifications for cognitive research as a whole, is included.
- Subjects
BOREDOM; ATTENTION; COGNITION; MIND-wandering
- Publication
Experimental Brain Research, 2018, Vol 236, Issue 9, p2483
- ISSN
0014-4819
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00221-016-4749-7