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Andreas Elpidorou1

  • 1Department of Philosophy,University of Louisville,Louisville,KY 40292.andreas.elpidorou@louisville.eduwww.elpidorou.net.

The Behavioral and Brain Sciences
|January 19, 2018
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Abstract:

In the light of recent findings on the nature of boredom, I argue that boredom is a potentially useful emotion in art reception and show how the Distancing-Embracing model can be applied to boredom.

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