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October 12, 2025Cognition & EmotionOpen Access

The motivational consequences of boredom

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Boredom can motivate individuals to engage in challenging activities, offering intrinsic value in alleviating boredom.
Participants manipulated to experience boredom showed an indirect effect on their self-reported desire to seek challenges.
The study utilized a video-watching paradigm to induce boredom in 297 participants, assessing their challenge selection.
Findings indicate that challenge-seeking behavior can reduce feelings of boredom and prevent its recurrence.

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Experiment identifies boredom as a motivator for seeking challenges, highlighting its potential benefits.

Mlynski et al. (2025) studied this question.

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