Boredom is more common at work than in any other setting, studies show, and employees are bored at work for more than 10 hours per week on average. Even astronauts and police officers get bored on the ...

“How are you?” I asked my neighbor, a neurologist, who was just now allowed to see patients in the hospital rather than from his living room on Zoom. “Bored,” was his immediate reply. “I am glad to be ...

Though neuroscience suggests that boredom can be good for us, we all try to avoid it. Even the most exciting jobs in the world — astronaut, nuclear engineer, helicopter pilot, virus hunter — can be ...

Boredom is office enemy number one among countless managers and executives looking to build engagement and increase productivity among workers. Few sights are quite as worrying among middle management ...

In the case of boredom, we think of many situations in life but intuitively not of exams. However, an international team of academics has now studied exactly this phenomenon of test boredom for the ...

The Bulletin’s Mike Cosper sat down with historian and author Christine Rosen to talk about this tension between the life we ...

(CNN) — Puppies, dancing babies, celebrity soundbites: A common go-to salve for a bout of boredom is to swipe through videos on your social media platform of choice. But that habit is likely making ...

We commonly consider spiritual practices as sources of peace and inspiration. A recent study led by researchers at the ...

Sadistic aggression (i.e. harming other people for pleasure) is somewhat of a scientific mystery. While the existence of sadistic behavior has been documented for centuries, scientific evidence for ...