{"product_id":"9783031326844","title":"Boredom Experience and Associated Behaviors : A Lifelong Research by Dr. Augustin de la Peña (1st ed. 2023. 2023. xx, 644 S. XX, 644 p. 235 mm)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book collects the lifelong research on boredom by American psychologist Augustin de la Peña (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 Peña 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.\n\u003c\/p\u003e Part 1: Boredom Experience and Associated Behaviors from Multiple Perspectives.- Chapter 1. Introduction and Overview.- Chapter 2. Western Literature and Philosophy.- Chapter 3. Psychiatry and Psychology.- Chapter 4. Sociology and Economics.- Chapter 5. Anthropology and Biology.- Part 2: Boredom Experience and Behaviors from the Perspective of Two Paradigms.- Chapter 6. Premises of the Western Commonsense View of Reality (Naïve\/Direct Realism).- Chapter 7. Premises of the Developmental Psychophysiological Approach to Reality.- Part 3: Western Modernity Re-Interpreted Within the New Perspective of Boredom.- Chapter 8. The Power of Boredom\/Interest-Entertainment in Shaping Modernity, I.- Chapter 9. The Power of Boredom\/Interest-Entertainment in Shaping Modernity, II.- Chapter 10. Implications for the Future, I.- Chapter 11. Implications for the Future, II.\n \u003cp\u003eAugustin de la Peña was born December 28, 1942, in Brownsville, Texas. He graduated in psychology from the University of Texas, Austin, with a minor in mathematics, and held a PhD, Cum Laude, from Stanford University. His doctorate focused on cognitive developmental psychology and developmental sleep-wake psychophysiology. He conducted postdoctoral research at the University of California, Los Angeles, specializing in the psychology and psychophysiology of boredom and interest, entertainment, arousal, alertness, sleepiness, and fatigue. With more than 30 years of clinical and research experience in sleep disorders, he served as director of sleep disorder centers in California and Texas. He also taught for 15 years in medical schools. Throughout his career, he wrote more than 50 academic publications, including \u003ci\u003eThe Psychobiology of Cancer: Automation and Boredom in Health and Disease\u003c\/i\u003e (Praeger, 1983).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJosefa Ros Velasco is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie postdoctoral researcher at the Complutense University of Madrid, where she leads the project \"Pre-Bored. Well-being and Prevention of Boredom in Spanish Nursing Homes\". Previously, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University as part of the Distinguished Junior Scholars program. She is a specialist in boredom studies, and the president of the International Society of Boredom Studies. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Disease of Boredom\u003c\/i\u003e (Alianza Editorial, 2022), and editor of \u003ci\u003eSuicide in Modern Literature\u003c\/i\u003e (Springer, 2021), \u003ci\u003eThe Faces of Depression in Literature \u003c\/i\u003e(Peter Lang, 2020), \u003ci\u003eThe Culture of Boredom\u003c\/i\u003e (Brill, 2020), and \u003ci\u003eBoredom Is in Your Mind\u003c\/i\u003e (Springer, 2019). She is the recipient of the Spanish National Research Prize (2022) and the Lincoln Book Prize for Excellence in Teaching and Service at Harvard University (2019).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristian Parreno is assistant professor of history and theory of architecture at Universidad San Francisco de Quito. His research explores conditions of boredom and sameness in the ideation and experience of the modern built environment. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eBoredom, Architecture, and Spatial Experience\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury, 2021); and his writings have appeared in \u003ci\u003eArchitectural Histories\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eArchitecture \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eEmotions: History, Culture, Society\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eLog\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Journal of Architecture\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Journal of Architectural Education\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Journal of Boredom Studies\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eTextual Practice\u003c\/i\u003e; and several edited volumes. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SPRINGER, BERLIN; SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING;","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48848204136683,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":292.97,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9783031326844-1.jpg?v=1781717429","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9783031326844","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}