High state boredom vastly affects psychiatric inpatients and predicts their treatment duration

Abstract Boredom is a ubiquitous, aversive human experience typically elicited by low information and monotony. Boredom can occur either as a transient mental state that prompts individuals to adapt their behavior to avoid monotony or as a temporally stable trait, describing a chronic susceptibility...

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Main Authors: Johannes P.-H. Seiler, Katharina Zerr, Simon Rumpel, Oliver Tüscher
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2023-11-01
Series:Translational Psychiatry
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-023-02650-9