Boredom Experience and Associated Behaviors: A Lifelong Research by Dr. Augustin De La Pena

This book collects the lifelong research on boredom by American psychologist Augustin de la Pena (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 Pena 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.