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Boredom gets a bad rap. But science says it can actually be good for us

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Title
Boredom gets a bad rap. But science says it can actually be good for us
Published by
The Conversation
DOI 10.64628/aa.eye4c6ky3
Authors

Kennedy, Michelle, Hermens, Daniel

Abstract

We live in a fast-paced society that subjects us to information overload and high stress. It might be time to embrace the pause.

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 222. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 19 June 2026.
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