Shane Bench

Who they are

The work of Shane Bench reaches this site through the paper listed below. On this site the name is tied to Boredom.

Key papers

Bench, S. W., & Lench, H. C. (2013). On the function of boredom. Behavioral Sciences, 3(3), 459-472. What it reports: Proposes that boredom pushes people toward new goals when the current one has stopped being useful, and notes that existing research only partly supports the idea and that experiments are needed.

Key ideas

Boredom: the discomfort of wanting engagement and not finding it, which the commentary separates from finding thought unpleasant

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