This behavior resonated with a theory she and colleagues had published in 2021, the “Boredom Feedback Model.” Boredom, they proposed, is rooted in attention shifts that occur when there’s a mismatch ...

Scrolling through videos on TikTok or YouTube to avert boredom may have a decidedly unintended consequence: It can make people feel more bored, according to the paradoxical findings of a recent study ...