This Collection aims to advance our theoretical understanding of boredom, improve the methods used to study boredom, and consider practical applications for managing boredom in real-world settings.

This Collection aims to advance our theoretical understanding of boredom, improve the methods used to study boredom, and consider practical applications for managing boredom in real-world settings.

Boredom, however, poses public health risks if left unchecked, and can be a sign of more serious mental health issues. We can all relate to this feeling, ...

Boredom makes people more creative, claim psychologists. People are more creative after they take part in a boring test, psychologists have found. By Sarah Knapton 25 March 2015 • 7:15am .

If you want to break the boredom, it’s best to keep changing your social media videos until you get to the best one, right? Not necessarily, research shows.

If you want to break the boredom, it’s best to keep changing your social media videos until you get to the best one, right? Not necessarily, research shows.

But the reality is that boredom is “normal, natural and healthy,” said Dr. Westgate, whose research focuses on what boredom is, why people experience it and what happens when they do.