Can boredom ever be good? Part 1

What is boredom and how does this emotional experience affect the way our brains think? ⎮ 29 min listen

Published in Neuroscience

May 25, 2020

All in the Mind

Lynne Malcolm produced & presented this podcast series via, Australian Broadcasting Corporation Radio

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Many Australians have reported a higher level of boredom during the long stretch of isolation brought about by COVID-19. So, if you have felt some boredom, was it good or bad? Psychologists believe they’ve classified several different shades of the beast and not all are bad. So we check out ways to embrace the better versions in Can boredom ever be good? Part One.

Guests

Prof Thomas Götz, Psychologist and Head of Educational Psychology and Societal Change, University of Vienna, Austria

Dr Sandi Mann, Psychologist, University of Central Lancashire, U.K.

Emeritus Prof Ruut Veenhoven, Sociologist, Erasmus University Rotterdam

All in the Mind

Lynne Malcolm produced & presented this podcast series via, Australian Broadcasting Corporation Radio

All in the Mind is RN’s exploration of all things mental—a program about the mind, brain and behaviour, and the endlessly fascinating interactions between them. From dreaming to depression, memory to imagination, psychotherapy to psychopathy, emotion to obsession, All in the Mind explores the human condition through the mind’s eye. While many aspects of our minds remain seductively mysterious, new light is being shed on the way we think and the way we relate to each other all the time. All in the Mind brings together a diverse range of ideas and human experiences through the voices of great thinkers and powerful personal stories.