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Boredom Experience and Associated Behaviors : A Lifelong Research by Dr. Augustin de la Peña / by Augustin de la Peña ; edited by Josefa Ros Velasco, Christian Parreno.

Springer Behavioral Science and Psychology eBooks 2023 Available online

Springer Behavioral Science and Psychology eBooks 2023
Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
de la Peña, Augustin.
Contributor:
Ros Velasco, Josefa.
Parreno, Christian.
Series:
Behavioral Science and Psychology Series
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Cognitive psychology.
Developmental psychology.
System theory.
Control theory.
Emotions.
Motivation (Psychology) in children.
Cognition.
Cognitive Psychology.
Developmental Psychology.
Systems Theory, Control.
Emotion.
Motivation.
Local Subjects:
Cognitive Psychology.
Developmental Psychology.
Systems Theory, Control.
Emotion.
Motivation.
Cognition.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (645 pages)
Edition:
1st ed. 2023.
Place of Publication:
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2023.
Summary:
This book collects the lifelong research on boredom by American psychologist Augustin de la Peña (1942-2021). It focuses on the experience of boredom—and other similar states, including ennui, melancholy, laziness, interest, attention, and entertainment—and 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 Peña 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 Augustin’s work and his invaluable contribution to the establishment of the field of boredom studies.
Contents:
Part 1: Boredom Experience and Associated Behaviors from Multiple Perspectives
Chapter 1. Introduction and Overview
Chapter 2. Western Literature and Philosophy
Chapter 3. Psychiatry and Psychology
Chapter 4. Sociology and Economics
Chapter 5. Anthropology and Biology
Part 2: Boredom Experience and Behaviors from the Perspective of Two Paradigms
Chapter 6. Premises of the Western Commonsense View of Reality (Naïve/Direct Realism)
Chapter 7. Premises of the Developmental Psychophysiological Approach to Reality
Part 3: Western Modernity Re-Interpreted Within the New Perspective of Boredom
Chapter 8. The Power of Boredom/Interest-Entertainment in Shaping Modernity, I
Chapter 9. The Power of Boredom/Interest-Entertainment in Shaping Modernity, II
Chapter 10. Implications for the Future, I
Chapter 11. Implications for the Future, II.
Notes:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
Other Format:
Print version: de la Peña, Augustin Boredom Experience and Associated Behaviors
ISBN:
9783031326851
3031326857
OCLC:
1407317095

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