Boredom Experience and Associated Behaviors

This book collects the lifelong research on boredom by American psychologist Augustin de la Pea (1942-2021). It focuses on the experience of boredomand other similar states, including ennui, melancholy, laziness, interest, attention, and entertainmentand its associated behaviors. Offering an interdisciplinary chronicle of boredom, from Antiquity to the present, special attention is paid to its daily experience as a ubiquitous phenomenon that informs cultural and political actions that continue to shape our society. Dr. de la Pea describes the obsolescence of the Western Commonsense View of Reality to propose a Developmental Psychophysiological Approach to Reality, reconceptualizing boredom. The book theorizes the condition as both logical and emotional, an axis that has defined the sensibility of the modern era. This is a volume edited posthumously by Josefa Ros Velasco and Christian Parreno in homage to Augustins work and his invaluable contribution to the establishment of the field of boredom studies.