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Intro
Preface
Augustin's Boredom
Contents
Abbreviations
About the Editors
Part I: Boredom Experience and Associated Behaviors from Multiple Perspectives
Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview
Paradoxes of Progress: The Double-Edged Sword of Increases in Knowledge/Experience
The Ubiquity of Boredom Experience in Everyday Parlance
Boredom's Unacknowledged Agency by the Custodians of the Culture
Boredom's Putative Inconsequentiality by the West's Custodians of Culture as Indexical of the West's Seduction by an Uncritically Examined Metaphysics and Epistemology
"Progress" as the Assumed Outcome of the Gradual Accrual of Knowledge/Experience
Inconsistencies Inherent in Naïve/Direct Realism's Conceptualization of "Stress"
Errant Conceptualizations of Stress and Stress Management
In Contemporary Stress Management Theory, as well as in the Formal Records of Modern Western Culture Broadly Considered, Whither the Experience of Boredom?
Major Perspectives of the Developmental Psychophysiologic Approach to Reality
Outline
Chapter 2: Western Literature and Philosophy
Boredom Experience as Taboo Topic in Western Culture
Boredom from the Perspective of Literary and Cultural History
Etymological Considerations
An Archaeology of the Partial Written Record of Boredom Experience
Chapter Summary
Chapter 3: Psychiatry and Psychology
Caveats About Knowledge Claims Emanating from Psychology and Psychiatry
The Phenomenology of Boredom/Interest
Differentiation of Interest and Boredom from Related Constructs
The Relation Between Interest and Enjoyment/Pleasingness
The Relation Between Interest, Value, and Importance
Psychoanalytic Perspectives
A Psychological Perspective of the Persistence of Interest
Early Experimental Research on Boredom: The Human Factors Perspectives
Sensory Deprivation Studies
Early Theoretical Work and Empirical Research on Attentional Approaches to Boredom
Perspectives from Educational Psychology
Contributions of Motivational and Personality Psychology
Boredom-Psychopathology Interrelations
Interrelation with Drug Abuse and Juvenile Delinquency
Boredom-Gender-Race-Depression Interrelations
Vocational Psychology Perspectives
Developmental Psychology Perspectives
Age-Boredom Interrelations
Psychophysiological Perspectives
Facial Expressions of Interest/Boredom
Naturalistic Studies
Questionnaire/Survey Studies
Measurement Issues and Efforts
Classification Schemes
Recent Contributions to the Definition and Measurement of Boredom Experience
Recent Conceptual and Empirical Work Suggesting a Renaissance of Interest in Boredom
Boredom as a Promoter of Cognitive Creativity and an Aid in Problem Solving
Recent Theoretical Conceptions of the Positive Functions of Boredom
Neuronal Underpinnings of Boredom
Chapter Summary
Preface
Augustin's Boredom
Contents
Abbreviations
About the Editors
Part I: Boredom Experience and Associated Behaviors from Multiple Perspectives
Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview
Paradoxes of Progress: The Double-Edged Sword of Increases in Knowledge/Experience
The Ubiquity of Boredom Experience in Everyday Parlance
Boredom's Unacknowledged Agency by the Custodians of the Culture
Boredom's Putative Inconsequentiality by the West's Custodians of Culture as Indexical of the West's Seduction by an Uncritically Examined Metaphysics and Epistemology
"Progress" as the Assumed Outcome of the Gradual Accrual of Knowledge/Experience
Inconsistencies Inherent in Naïve/Direct Realism's Conceptualization of "Stress"
Errant Conceptualizations of Stress and Stress Management
In Contemporary Stress Management Theory, as well as in the Formal Records of Modern Western Culture Broadly Considered, Whither the Experience of Boredom?
Major Perspectives of the Developmental Psychophysiologic Approach to Reality
Outline
Chapter 2: Western Literature and Philosophy
Boredom Experience as Taboo Topic in Western Culture
Boredom from the Perspective of Literary and Cultural History
Etymological Considerations
An Archaeology of the Partial Written Record of Boredom Experience
Chapter Summary
Chapter 3: Psychiatry and Psychology
Caveats About Knowledge Claims Emanating from Psychology and Psychiatry
The Phenomenology of Boredom/Interest
Differentiation of Interest and Boredom from Related Constructs
The Relation Between Interest and Enjoyment/Pleasingness
The Relation Between Interest, Value, and Importance
Psychoanalytic Perspectives
A Psychological Perspective of the Persistence of Interest
Early Experimental Research on Boredom: The Human Factors Perspectives
Sensory Deprivation Studies
Early Theoretical Work and Empirical Research on Attentional Approaches to Boredom
Perspectives from Educational Psychology
Contributions of Motivational and Personality Psychology
Boredom-Psychopathology Interrelations
Interrelation with Drug Abuse and Juvenile Delinquency
Boredom-Gender-Race-Depression Interrelations
Vocational Psychology Perspectives
Developmental Psychology Perspectives
Age-Boredom Interrelations
Psychophysiological Perspectives
Facial Expressions of Interest/Boredom
Naturalistic Studies
Questionnaire/Survey Studies
Measurement Issues and Efforts
Classification Schemes
Recent Contributions to the Definition and Measurement of Boredom Experience
Recent Conceptual and Empirical Work Suggesting a Renaissance of Interest in Boredom
Boredom as a Promoter of Cognitive Creativity and an Aid in Problem Solving
Recent Theoretical Conceptions of the Positive Functions of Boredom
Neuronal Underpinnings of Boredom
Chapter Summary