A possible limitation that jumps out to me about the study is that the participants were all from crowd-sourcing services (mainly Amazon's Mechanical Turk, resi

A possible limitation that jumps out to me about the study is that the participants were all from crowd-sourcing services (mainly Amazon's Mechanical Turk, residing in the USA; but also Prolific.co, residing in the UK). Are people who work for crowd-sourcing services representitive of the wider population? I found their definition of boredom interesting: > Boredom is often conceptualized as the adverse experience of wanting but being unable to pursue satisfactory activity. It is an unpleasant emotion characterized by low or mixed arousal, a lack of interest in the situation, the perception that time is passing slowly, failure to sustain attention, and a lack of perceived purpose. Boredom, an affective experience, signals that current (in)activity fails to offer a sense of meaningfulness and propels the pursuit of actions that, for example, offer a sense of purpose, novelty, or might temporarily distract from one’s immediate predicament. And what might make people boring: > [prior] results indicated that stereotypically boring people are characterized by negative egocentrism in interactions (e.g., lack of interest in the other person’s contributions and constant complaining) and banality (e.g., interest in a single topic only; repeating jokes); they talked less and shared relatively little subjective information. > Our research shows that being perceived as boring likely conveys low competence and low warmth, being a social burden, thus causing avoidance by others. Their table of stereotypical characteristics of boring people: https://journals.sagepub.com/na101/home/literatum/publisher/sage/journals/content/pspc/0/pspc.ahead-of-print/01461672221079104/20220307/images/large/10.1177_01461672221079104-table1.jpeg https://journals.sagepub.com/na101/home/literatum/publisher/... Their table of boring jobs: https://journals.sagepub.com/na101/home/literatum/publisher/sage/journals/content/pspc/0/pspc.ahead-of-print/01461672221079104/20220307/images/large/10.1177_01461672221079104-table2.jpeg https://journals.sagepub.com/na101/home/literatum/publisher/... Their table of boring hobbies: https://journals.sagepub.com/na101/home/literatum/publisher/sage/journals/content/pspc/0/pspc.ahead-of-print/01461672221079104/20220307/images/large/10.1177_01461672221079104-table3.jpeg https://journals.sagepub.com/na101/home/literatum/publisher/...