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Can tasks be inherently boring?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 December 2013

Evan Charney
Evan Charney*
Affiliation:
Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0239. echar@duke.eduhttp://www.duke.edu/~echar/
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Abstract

Kurzban et al. argue that the experiences of “effort,” “boredom,” and “fatigue” are indications that the costs of a task outweigh its benefits. Reducing the costs of tasks to “opportunity costs” has the effect of rendering tasks costless and of denying that they can be inherently boring or tedious, something that “vigilance tasks” were intentionally designed to be.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 36 , Issue 6 , December 2013 , pp. 684
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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