Can tasks be inherently boring?
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2013-12
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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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Charney, Evan (2013). Can tasks be inherently boring?. Behav Brain Sci, 36(6). p. 684. 10.1017/S0140525X13000964 Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/12547.
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