Tam, Katy and Van Tilburg, Wijnand and Chan, Christian (2023) Whatever will bore, will bore: The mere anticipation of boredom exacerbates its occurrence in lectures. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 93 (1). pp. 198-210. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/bjep.12549
Tam, Katy and Van Tilburg, Wijnand and Chan, Christian (2023) Whatever will bore, will bore: The mere anticipation of boredom exacerbates its occurrence in lectures. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 93 (1). pp. 198-210. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/bjep.12549
Tam, Katy and Van Tilburg, Wijnand and Chan, Christian (2023) Whatever will bore, will bore: The mere anticipation of boredom exacerbates its occurrence in lectures. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 93 (1). pp. 198-210. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/bjep.12549
Abstract
Background: Academic boredom is ubiquitous, and it leads to a range of adverse learning outcomes. Given that students often make estimates of how boring lectures are, does anticipating a lecture to be boring shape their actual experience of boredom?. Aims: The current research investigated whether anticipated boredom intensifies subsequent boredom felt in lectures. Samples: We recruited undergraduate students to participate in three studies. Methods: Study 1 (N = 121) and study 2 (N = 130) were conducted in natural university lecture environments. We found that students who anticipated a lecture to bore them more subsequently felt more bored by it. In study 3 (N = 92), we experimentally manipulated anticipated boredom before participants watched a lecture video. We found that those who were led to anticipate higher levels of boredom felt more bored by the video. Results and Conclusions: Results converged to indicate that the mere expectation that a lecture will be boring may be sufficient to exacerbate its subsequent occurrence. We discuss these findings in the contexts of affective forecasting and education.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | academic boredom; affective forecasting; anticipated emotion; expectation |
Divisions: | Faculty of Science and Health Faculty of Science and Health > Psychology, Department of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 12 Oct 2022 09:55 |
Last Modified: | 07 Aug 2024 20:11 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/33376 |
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