When stripped of screens, the mind wanders. This wandering, long dismissed as idle or unproductive, often proves to be the ...

The resulting whine of, "I'm bored!" may be a frustrating moment for parents. But it turns out boredom can have some big ...

Boredom is generally viewed as an unpleasant emotional state. It is characterized by feelings of dissatisfaction, restlessness, and mental fatigue (Eastwood et al., 2012). For a bored person, mental ...

We’ve all had that itchy, edgy feeling, that urge to be doing something—anything— other than what we’re doing right now. It’s boredom, and it’s awful. As ubiquitous as the experience is, only recently ...

Remember those endless childhood summers when you’d dramatically flop onto the couch and announce to anyone within earshot that you were “sooooo bored”? Turns out those excruciating moments of nothing ...

The modern concept of boredom goes back to the 19th century. For Erich Fromm and other thinkers, boredom was a response to industrial society, in which people are required to engage in alienated labor ...

Millennial parents of today’s generation of kids grew up in a unique, budding world of technology, which also coexisted during a time of pure, organically created boredom. It was a time when weekend ...

Kate is a 19-year-old college student who spends her days attending class, studying, working, exercising and hanging out with ...

A Gen Z content creator is trying to "fix his attention span" by rawdogging boredom - a term he uses to describe doing ...

Remember the sadness that came with the last time you failed miserably at something? Or the last time you were so anxious about an upcoming event that you couldn’t concentrate for days? These types of ...