Scientists decode why people get bored

The team found that people get bored when they have difficulty paying attention to the internal information like thoughts or feelings or external information such as environmental stimuli required for participating in satisfying activity.

Boredom is also experienced by people when they are aware of the fact that they’re having difficulty paying attention or when people believe that the environment is responsible for their aversive state.

Integrating the disparate fields of cognitive neuroscience,social psychology,and clinical psychology will produce a more thorough understanding of boredom and attention – phenomena which are ubiquitous and intimately linked,researchers said in a statement.

The study was published in the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science.