Moynihan, Andrew B.; van Tilburg, Wijnand A.P.; Igou, Eric Raymond; Wisman, Arnaud; Donnelly, Alan Edward; Mulcaire, Jessie B
(Frontiers, 2015)
Research indicates that being bored affectively marks an appraised lack of meaning in the present situation and in life. We propose that state boredom increases eating in an attempt to distract from this experience, ...