News tagged with boredom
Boredom
Boredom is an emotional state experienced when an individual is without any activity or is not interested in their surroundings. The first recorded use of the word boredom is in the novel Bleak House by Charles Dickens, written in 1852, in which it appears six times, although the expression to be a bore had been used in the sense of "to be tiresome or dull" since 1768. The French term for boredom, ennui, is sometimes used in English as well.
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A computer system allows a machine to recognize a person's emotional state
The system created by these researchers can be used to automatically adapt the dialogue to the user's situation, so that the machine's response is adequate to the person's emotional state. "Thanks to this ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Nov 21, 2011 |
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Overcoming boredom
“I’m bored.” It’s a line that parents likely hear throughout the year. But, as students prepare to head back to classes for the start of a new school year, one University of Alberta researcher says these ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 01, 2011 |
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Driving thrills combat boredom
(PhysOrg.com) -- Boredom is provoking as many as a third of drivers to take unnecessary risks at the wheel, a new study has found.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jan 04, 2011 |
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Bored to death? It's possible
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from the University College London in the U.K. have found that living a life of boredom can kill you.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 09, 2010 |
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Seven-year itch? Boredom can hurt a marriage
(PhysOrg.com) -- Boredom, not only conflicts, causes couples to lose interest in their marriage, new findings indicate.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 23, 2009 |
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