The Importance of Thinking Again

Boredom avoidance is supposed to be driven by extraversion, which is sort of an activation of dopaminergic pathways in the brain. And so you're highly reward seeking and that's what leads you to both feel bored and not want to be bored. But stress avoidance seems to bedriven by an independent system, which would be more of the punishment system and comes from emotional reactivity. So I think your prototypical stress avoiders would be reactive introverts and your prototypical boredom avoiders would probably be emotionally stable extroverts. That makes a lot of sense to me because I'm an extrovert.