Boredom Experience and Associated Behaviors : A Lifelong Research by Dr. Augustin de la Peña

• Autore: de la Peña Augustin
• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2023; ©2023
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (645 pages)
• Disciplina: 152.4
• Soggetto topico: Avorriment; Psicologia
• Soggetto genere / forma: Llibres electrònics
• Altri autori: Ros VelascoJosefa ParrenoChristian
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Preface -- Augustin's Boredom -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- About the Editors -- Part I: Boredom Experience and Associated Behaviors from Multiple Perspectives -- Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview -- Paradoxes of Progress: The Double-Edged Sword of Increases in Knowledge/Experience -- The Ubiquity of Boredom Experience in Everyday Parlance -- Boredom's Unacknowledged Agency by the Custodians of the Culture -- Boredom's Putative Inconsequentiality by the West's Custodians of Culture as Indexical of the West's Seduction by an Uncritically Examined Metaphysics and Epistemology -- "Progress" as the Assumed Outcome of the Gradual Accrual of Knowledge/Experience -- Inconsistencies Inherent in Naïve/Direct Realism's Conceptualization of "Stress" -- Errant Conceptualizations of Stress and Stress Management -- In Contemporary Stress Management Theory, as well as in the Formal Records of Modern Western Culture Broadly Considered, Whither the Experience of Boredom? -- Major Perspectives of the Developmental Psychophysiologic Approach to Reality -- Outline -- Chapter 2: Western Literature and Philosophy -- Boredom Experience as Taboo Topic in Western Culture -- Boredom from the Perspective of Literary and Cultural History -- Etymological Considerations -- An Archaeology of the Partial Written Record of Boredom Experience -- Chapter Summary -- Chapter 3: Psychiatry and Psychology -- Caveats About Knowledge Claims Emanating from Psychology and Psychiatry -- The Phenomenology of Boredom/Interest -- Differentiation of Interest and Boredom from Related Constructs -- The Relation Between Interest and Enjoyment/Pleasingness -- The Relation Between Interest, Value, and Importance -- Psychoanalytic Perspectives -- A Psychological Perspective of the Persistence of Interest -- Early Experimental Research on Boredom: The Human Factors Perspectives. ; Sensory Deprivation Studies -- Early Theoretical Work and Empirical Research on Attentional Approaches to Boredom -- Perspectives from Educational Psychology -- Contributions of Motivational and Personality Psychology -- Boredom-Psychopathology Interrelations -- Interrelation with Drug Abuse and Juvenile Delinquency -- Boredom-Gender-Race-Depression Interrelations -- Vocational Psychology Perspectives -- Developmental Psychology Perspectives -- Age-Boredom Interrelations -- Psychophysiological Perspectives -- Facial Expressions of Interest/Boredom -- Naturalistic Studies -- Questionnaire/Survey Studies -- Measurement Issues and Efforts -- Classification Schemes -- Recent Contributions to the Definition and Measurement of Boredom Experience -- Recent Conceptual and Empirical Work Suggesting a Renaissance of Interest in Boredom -- Boredom as a Promoter of Cognitive Creativity and an Aid in Problem Solving -- Recent Theoretical Conceptions of the Positive Functions of Boredom -- Neuronal Underpinnings of Boredom -- Chapter Summary -- Chapter 4: Sociology and Economics -- The Sociological Approach and Perspective -- Sociological Perspectives of Boredom -- Eminent Sociologists on the Role of Social Structures in the Experience of Boredom -- Karl Marx -- Emile Durkheim -- Max Weber -- Georg Simmel -- Charles Cooley -- Lewis Mumford -- Richard Schmitt -- Orin Klapp -- The Question of the Social Costs of Individualism and Capitalism -- Well-Known Economists on Boredom -- John Maynard Keynes and Roy Harrod -- Tibor Scitovsky -- Boredom from the Viewpoints of Social/Culture Critics and Criticism -- Morris Berman -- George Steiner -- Anton Zijderveld -- Phillip Slater -- Todd Gitlin -- Boredom, Gender, and Feminism -- Boredom in the Schools -- Workplace Boredom -- Boredom in the Home -- Boredom and Drug/Alcohol Use-Abuse -- Boredom in the Military. ; John Gray's Critique of Capitalism and the West's Assumption of Economic Progress -- Chapter Summary -- Chapter 5: Anthropology and Biology -- Anthropological Perspectives of Boredom/Interest -- Cross-Cultural Differences in the Experience of Boredom/Interest -- The Role of Boredom/Interest in Culture Change -- The Anthropology and Psychology of Games -- The Evolution of Games -- Paradoxes of Progress in the Arts and Sciences: The View of Gunther Stent -- Other Conceptions of the Role of Interest/Boredom in Culture Change -- Biological Perspectives of Boredom/Interest -- Exploratory Behavior -- Orienting and Habituation Responses -- The Phylogeny of Boredom Experience and Associated Behaviors -- The Phylogeny and Ontogeny of Play -- Individual Differences in Temperament and Exploratory Approach Behaviors -- Biological Substrates of Play, Experience-Seeking Behavior, and the Orienting Response -- Association with Physically Expressed Disease Processes and Violent Behavior(s) -- Chapter Summary -- Part II: Boredom Experience and Behaviors from the Perspective of Two Paradigms -- Chapter 6: Premise of the Western Commonsense View of Reality (Naïve/Direct Realism) -- The Cult of Western Culture -- Central Premises of the Received Western Commonsense View of Reality Paradigm -- Primary Ontological Assumptions of the Western Commonsense View of Reality -- The Western Commonsense View of Time and Causality -- Overview of Premises of the Western Commonsense View of Reality -- Reality as Directly and Objectively Perceived -- Reductionism -- Premises Regarding Dynamics of Change/Stability -- A Partial List of the Assumptions of the Western Commonsense View of Reality -- Chapter Summary -- Chapter 7: Premises of the Developmental Psychophysiological Approach to Reality -- Recapitulation and Amplification of Dualism and Postmodernism. ; Naïve/Direct Dualism: A "Separate Mind" Objectively Viewing an Objective World -- The Myth of Objectivity: From an Objective to a Socially Constructed World -- From Individual Reason to Communal Rhetoric -- The Assumptive Myth of Language as Truthful Representation of the World -- Reduction of Mind to Matter -- Western Critiques of the Postmodernist Paradigm -- Conceptual Background and Definitions of Key Terms and Concepts -- Key Ontological/Metaphysical Definitions and Premises -- Major Premises of the Developmental Psychophysiologic Approach to Reality -- Chapter Summary -- The Manufacture of Drama and Stimulation as a Primary Anodyne of Boredom -- Toward a Definition and Conceptualization of Boredom -- Part III: Western Modernity Re-Interpreted Within the New Perspective of Boredom -- Chapter 8: The Power of Boredom/Interest-Entertainment in Shaping Modernity, I -- Business and the Entertainment Industry -- Sports -- The Video Games Industry -- Tourism -- Media Trends -- The Growing Sensationalism and Violence of TV Fare -- TV Coverage of War -- Control of TV/Media by a Smaller Coterie of the Financial Elite -- Religion and Spirituality -- The Bored Christ -- Chapter Summary -- Chapter 9: The Power of Boredom/Interest-Entertainment in Shaping Modernity, II -- Education and the School -- Social/Political Movements -- Women's, Gays', and Minority Rights -- In the Selection and Electability of Political Candidates and Politicians -- War, Violence, and Terrorism -- The Need For/Love of War and Violence Among Some Individuals and Societies -- The Romantic Myth of War as Primarily Providing the Experience of Excitement -- The Increasing Entertainment Component of War -- The Historical Emergence of War/Conflict as a Means of Mitigating Boredom -- Popular Press Articles on Boredom's Putative Role in Individual and Small-Group Crime. ; Individual and Societal Creativity -- Mozart's and Einstein's Boredom -- Celebrity Boredom and Creativity -- TV and Newspaper Journalists -- Actors and Actresses -- Athletes -- Coaches -- Generals, Military Men, and Military Journalists -- Politicians, Statesmen, and "Royalty" -- Businessmen -- Rock/Pop Music Stars -- Comedians -- TV Evangelists -- Physicians -- Musicians and Dancers -- Scientists -- Writers -- Styles of Creativity -- Gluttony and Obesity -- Chapter Summary -- Chapter 10: Implications for the Future, I -- General Implications and Predictions -- Specific Predictions of the DPAR for Trends in Evolution and Human Behavior -- Increasing War, Violence, and Terrorism: On the Cusp of Dystopia/WW3? -- Increasing Incidence of Behavioral, Psychological, and Cognitive Disorder -- Increasing Incidence of Somatically Expressed Disorders -- Increasing Incidence of Sleep Disorders -- Creativity in the Arts and Sciences -- Education and the School of the Future -- The Current Morass in the Institutions and Practices of "Education" -- The Core Elementary School Curriculum -- The Core Middle School Curriculum -- University Undergraduate and Graduate Education -- The Centrality of Cognitive Developmental Psychology in the Curriculum of the Future -- The Core College Undergraduate Curriculum -- Psychology -- Predictions of Psychology's Future and Changes to Its Core Curricula if It Is to Survive -- Contemporary Cognitive Psychology Offerings in the School of the Future -- The Unmasking of Naïve/Direct Realism in the School of the Future -- Medicine -- Contemporary Western Medicine at the Crossroads -- Additional Strengths and Limitations of Contemporary Medicine -- Complementary Use of Mind-Body Psychotechnology Assessments and Treatments -- Era III Medicine -- The New Paradigm of Cellular Communication as Ushering in the New Medicine. ; Normative and Pathologic Boredom Included in the Future of Psychiatric Practice.
• Titolo autorizzato: Boredom Experience and Associated Behaviors
• ISBN: 3-031-32685-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910760281703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II