This experiment investigated whether experimental manipulation of the inherently aversive experience of boredom and exposure to a neutral condition stimulus (CS) can produce a conditioned avoidance response to the CS.
All participants complete a boredom inducing task adapted from Todman and Koval (2015) during which they are repeatedly exposed to either exposed to the CS cue (instruction presented in a light purple text box; the experimental condition) or non-CS cue (instructions presented a white text box; the control condition).
Following completion of the boredom induction task, participants are given the choice of completing one of two substantially similar tasks (recalling random strings of odd or even numbers). Each of the two new tasks will be presented in a way that is CS-concordant (in a light purple text box) or CS-discordant (in a light green text box).
A conditioned avoidance response would be indicated if participants in the experimental (i.e., CS-exposed) group are significantly more likely to select the CS-discordant task than members of the control group.
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This experiment investigated whether experimental manipulation of the inherently aversive experience of boredom and exposure to a neutral condition stimulus (CS) can produce a conditioned avoidance response to the CS.
All participants complete a boredom inducing task adapted from Todman and Koval (2015) during which they are repeatedly exposed to either exposed to the CS cue (instruction presented in a light purple text box; the experimental condition) or non-CS cue (instructions presented a white text box; the control condition).
Following completion of the boredom induction task, participants are given the choice of completing one of two substantially similar tasks (recalling random strings of odd or even numbers). Each of the two new tasks will be presented in a way that is CS-concordant (in a light purple text box) or CS-discordant (in a light green text box).
A conditioned avoidance response would be indicated if participants in the experimental (i.e., CS-exposed) group are significantly more likely to select the CS-discordant task than members of the control group.
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An adaptation of the Vowel Cancellation Task designed by Koval and Todman (2015) in which participants are instructed to count the number of vowels contained in a series of 16 equal-length paragraphs presented against a white background (the US). Participants will be instructed to record their vowel counts in a response text field underneath each paragraph. In order to increase attendance to the task, an “incorrect total’’ warning will appear if participants record an erroneous vowel count (see Figure 1 for an example of a single paragraph screen). At the commencement of the task, and at the beginning of each four-minute interval, the task instructions will be presented to participants in writing. Participants in the experimental condition will have the instructions presented to them in a light purple text box (the CS), while participants in the experimental condition will be presented in a white text box. These colors were chosen because of their affective neutrality (Jonauskaite et al., 2020). See Figure 1 for an example of the instructions to be given to the control and experimental group.
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Koval, S. R., & Todman, M. (2015). Induced boredom constrains mindfulness: An online demonstration. Psychology and Cognitive Sciences - Open Journal, 1(1), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.17140/pcsoj-1-101
https://doi.org/10.17140/pcsoj-1-101
Jonauskaite, D., Parraga, C. A., Quiblier, M., & Mohr, C. (2020). Feeling Blue or Seeing Red? Similar Patterns of Emotion Associations With Colour Patches and Colour Terms. I-Perception. https://doi.org/10.1177/2041669520902484
https://doi.org/10.1177/2041669520902484
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A simple dichotomous choice task (e.g., Tom, 1995; Mittal, 2015) offering participants the choice of a CS-concordant or CS-discordant task.
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Tom, G. (1995). Classical conditioning of unattended stimuli. Psychology & Marketing, 12(1), 79–87. https://doi.org/10.1002/mar.4220120106
https://doi.org/10.1002/mar.4220120106
Mittal, B. (2015). Effects of Viewing a Product in Good/Bad Music Contexts: An Extension of the Classical Conditioning Research in Marketing. In K. Bahn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 1988 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference. Developments in Marketing Science: Proceedings of the Academy of Marketing Science. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17046-6_15
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17046-6_15
