Boredom Reduces When You Think You're Watched

Marki and lohenstein could test the scarce capacity theory of boredom. If boredom is a signal that a task isn't worth doing, what if they made it more worth while? One obvious way was to use money. They paid people a piece rate in terms of how many pegs they're turning. And when you pay people more, sure enough, the level of boredom goes down. Another intervention was to make the task more challenging....