Achievement emotions are emotions linked to academic, work, or sports achievement
activities (activity emotions) and their success and failure outcomes (outcome emotions) …

Boredom is frequently considered inconsequential and has received relatively little research
attention. We argue that boredom has important implications for human functioning, based …

Cross-sectional analyses have shown increased obesogenic behaviors and a potential for
weight gain during COVID-19 related peak-lockdown (March–May 2020), but longitudinal …

Psychological science has typically conceptualized a good life in terms of either hedonic or
eudaimonic well-being. We propose that psychological richness is another, neglected …

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced governments worldwide to impose movement
restrictions on their citizens. Although critical to reducing the virus' reproduction rate, these …

What is boredom? We review environmental, attentional, and functional theories and
present a new model that describes boredom as an affective indicator of unsuccessful …

Building upon the Conservation of Resources (COR) theory, this longitudinal study
examined whether job crafting behaviors (ie increasing structural and social job resources …

Research indicates that being bored affectively marks an appraised lack of meaning in the
present situation and in life. We propose that state boredom increases eating in an attempt …

Why are negative emotions so central in art reception far beyond tragedy? Revisiting
classical aesthetics in the light of recent psychological research, we present a novel model …

Our central goal is to provide a definition of boredom in terms of the underlying mental
processes that occur during an instance of boredom. Through the synthesis of …