Recent Publications

• Laboratory method to induce state boredom increases impulsive choice in people who use cocaine and controls

• When inequity leads to boredom: An experimental study with university students

• Boredom in a Time of Uncertainty: State and Trait Boredom’s Associations with Psychological Health during COVID-19

• Reflective functioning and expressed emotion across the schizotypy spectrum: Developmental experiential factors

• Assessing acquisition and discarding behavior using an online simulation task: A validation study

• When Time Flies: State and Trait Boredom, Time Perception, and Hedonic Task Appraisals

• Psychedelic Harm Reduction and Integration: A Transtheoretical Model for Clinical Practice

• Treatment outcomes in older adults with hoarding disorder: The impact of self‐control, boredom and social support

• Resident Attitudes About Mental Health: a Real-Time Smart Phone Survey

• Induced Boredom Suppresses the Recall of Positively Valenced Information: A Preliminary Study

• Induced Boredom Constrains Mindfulness: An Online Demonstration

• Boredom and Boredom Proneness in Children: Implications for Academic and Social Adjustment

Symposia

Humanities Symposium on Boredom: Vanier College, 2022

• Boredom, Time Perception, and Psychiatric Illnesses

COVID-19 Psychology Research Symposium: The New School for Social Research, 2020

• State Boredom, Boredom Proneness, and Psychological Distress During the COVID-19 Pandemic

• Boredom is Associated with Increased Substance Use During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Poster Presentations

Association for Psychological Science (APS) Annual Convention: 2025

• Research Proposal for the Investigation of the Role of Metacognition in Boredom Management

• Research Proposal on Countertransferential Boredom and the Therapeutic Alliance

Eastern Psychological Association: 2025

• Boredom, Fantasy Proneness and the Tendency to Hallucinate

• The Role of Metacognition in Managing Boredom

• Digital Self-Harm: The Sibling Effect

Association for Psychological Science (APS) Global Psychological Science Summit: 2024

• Reinforcement Patterns and Adverse Childhood Experiences in Sex As Self-Injury (SASI) and Behavioral Addictions

New York State Psychological Association (NYSPA) Annual Convention: 2024

• Depression, Recent Boredom Salience and Sexual Boredom: Response to SSRIs

Eastern Psychological Association: 2023

• Public perceptions of problematic substance use and harm reduction

• Under the Surface: Boredom in Individuals with Compulsive Hoarding Histories

Southeastern Psychological Association: 2022

• Filling the Void: Boredom, Excessive Acquisition, and Difficulties Discarding Items

Eastern Psychological Association: 2022

• Filling the Void: a Two-Part Study of Acquiring, Discarding, and Boredom

• Perceptions of Boredom-Attributed Deviant Behavior

• Boredom proneness and tolerance for boredom: A post hoc exploratory analysis

• Bored to run: Can inducing a state of boredom facilitate conditioned avoidance learning?

• Boredom and Moral Judgments

New England Psychological Association: 2021

• Bored and vulnerable: Induced boredom and its effects on perceived control over uncontrollable outcomes

• The effects of variations in social inequity on boredom

• Loneliness and psychological well-being during Covid-19

• Psychedelic Harm Reduction and Integration: A Transtheoretical Model for Clinical Practice

• Perceptions of Boredom-Attributed Deviant Behavior

Association for Psychological Science: 2021

• Preliminary Validation of an Online, Behavioral Measure of Hoarding Disorder Symptoms

• Delay Discounting and Risk-taking Decision Behaviors of Adult Non-dependent Users: Cannabis-only vs Concurrent Cannabis vs Control

• Boredom is Associated with Increased Substance Use During the COVID-19 Pandemic

• Explicit Probability Decision-Making Predicts Treatment Retention in Polydrug Dependent Inpatients

• Distress about Climate Change is Associated with Depression, Anxiety and Stress

• More than a machine: Exploring the humanization of sex robots

• Boredom Proneness and State Boredom are Associated with Psychological Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic

• The relationships between social anxiety, perceived social support and family cohesion

• Boredom and the Illusion of Control

• Correlation between Dissociative Symptoms, State Boredom, and Urges to View Sexually Explicit Media (SEM)

• The Relationship between Boredom, Depression, and Aggression in Men

Division 39 Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology: 40th Annual Spring Meeting: 2021

• Reflective Functioning and Expressed Emotion Across the Schizotypy Spectrum

Eastern Psychological Association: 2021

• Preliminary Validation of an Online, Behavioral Measure of Acquiring Symptoms in Hoarding Disorder

• More than a machine: Exploring the humanization of sex robots

• Associations Between Boredom and Psychological Distress During the COVID-19 Pandemic

• Boredom is Associated with Increased Substance Use During the COVID-19 Pandemic

• The relationships between social anxiety, perceived social support and family cohesion

New England Psychological Association: 2020

• How human is a love machine? An exploration of human-robot interactions

Association for Psychological Science: 2020

• Boredom is Positively Associated with Symptoms of Hoarding Disorder

• Lower Levels of Internal Stimulation in Trichotillomania and Excoriation Disorder

• Recreational Psychedelic Use Makes Flow States More Accessible

Eastern Psychological Association: 2020

• You're Not Bored if Time Flies: Time Perception Affects Boring Task Appraisals

• Expressed emotion and reflective functioning in relation to schizotypy:
 An exploration of potential developmental factors

• The Effect of State Boredom on Boredom Proneness Scale Scores

• Putting the Pieces Together: Effects of a Flow Induction on PTSD Symptoms

• Examining the Impact of Antidepressant Medications on Boredom

• Boredom and Anhedonia: Associations with the Remembered Past and Anticipated Future

• Alcohol Expectancies, Drinking Motives and Boredom

• Boredom in Trichotillomania and Excoriation Disorder

• Boredom and Appraisals of the Past

New England Psychological Association: 2019

• Trait boredom’s influence on crime severity: A compilation

• Is boredom associated with overestimations of physical activity engagement?

• The effect of state boredom on boredom proneness ratings

• The association between trauma symptoms, state boredom, and boredom proneness

• How much can early life experiences explain:
 Implications for development of psychopathology

Association for Psychological Science: 2019

• Boredom is associated with appraisals of the remembered past and anticipated future

• Recreational psychedelic use is associated with boredom and depression

• Trait boredom’s influence on the perception of crime severity

• The shocking nature of boredom

Eastern Psychological Association: 2019

• Can you be bored when time flies?

• Exercise and boredom: A preliminary exploration

• I’m bored and you’re innocent: Social judgements after boredom induction

• Resident attitudes about mental health: A real-time smart phone survey

• State boredom measure in a representative sample

New England Psychological Association: 2017

• The role of boredom and psychosocial factors in predicting illicit substance use in patients receiving methadone maintenance therapy

New England Psychological Association: 2016

• Self and other expectancies and alcohol use