Verbal transformations and boredom susceptibility

Verbal transformations and boredom susceptibility

Twelve high- & 12 low-boredom-susceptible undergraduates were presented with seven neutral words for seven minutes each, repeated at a constant rate on a tape recorder. Contrary to the arousal hypothesis, the low-boredom-susceptible students reported significantly more verbal transformations or...

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Veröffentlicht in:Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society 1977-11, Vol.10 (5), p.367-368
Hauptverfasser: Calef, Richard S., Calef, Ruth A., Piper, Edward H., Wilson, Sheri A., Geller, E. Scott
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Twelve high- & 12 low-boredom-susceptible undergraduates were presented with seven neutral words for seven minutes each, repeated at a constant rate on a tape recorder. Contrary to the arousal hypothesis, the low-boredom-susceptible students reported significantly more verbal transformations or word distortions than the high-boredom-susceptible students. The differences were attributed to an attention factor. HA
ISSN:0090-5054
DOI:10.3758/BF03329362