ArticleScientific reports2022
Experienced entropy drives choice behavior in a boring decision-making task.
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- The association between boredom and mind-wandering weakens with increasing depressive symptom severity.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- An Information-Theoretic Framework for Understanding Learning and Choice Under Uncertainty.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- A reduced perception of sensory information is linked with elevated boredom in people with and without attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.Communications psychology · 2025Article
- Boredom signals deviation from a cognitive homeostatic set point.Communications psychology · 2025Review
- Validation of a German version of the Boredom Proneness Scale and the Multidimensional State Boredom Scale.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Boredom and curiosity: the hunger and the appetite for information.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Review
- Modeling fashion as an emergent collective behavior of bored individuals.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- High state boredom vastly affects psychiatric inpatients and predicts their treatment duration.Translational psychiatry · 2023Article
- The Role of Thermodynamic and Informational Entropy in Improving Real Estate Valuation Methods.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- The effect of short-form video addiction on undergraduates' academic procrastination: a moderated mediation model.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Boredom has been defined as an aversive mental state that is induced by the disability to engage in satisfying activity, most often experienced in monotonous environments. However, current understanding of the situational factors inducing boredom and driving subsequent behavior remains incomplete. Here, we introduce a two-alternative forced-choice task coupled with sensory stimulation of different degrees of monotony. We find that human subjects develop a bias in decision-making, avoiding the more monotonous alternative that is correlated with self-reported state boredom. This finding was replicated in independent laboratory and online experiments and proved to be specific for the induction of boredom rather than curiosity. Furthermore, using theoretical modeling we show that the entropy in the sequence of individually experienced stimuli, a measure of information gain, serves as a major determinant to predict choice behavior in the task. With this, we underline the relevance of boredom for driving behavioral responses that ensure a lasting stream of information to the brain.
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