John Eastwood Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology, York University John Eastwood, a registered Clinical Psychologist, holds an academic appointment at York University in Toronto Canada as an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology where he trains future psychologists and conducts research on the intersection between cognition and emotion. He has examined how attention is allocated to affective and socially relevant information, the influence of mood and motivation on attention, as well as the affective consequences of attention failures. His current work seeks to better understand the feeling of thinking and how such feelings are an inextricable part of cognition. In particular, he is examining the feeling of boredom associated with the unengaged mind. He has published widely in high impact Psychology Journals. His seminal research paper on boredom received an Altmetric Attention Score of 150, putting it in the top 5% of all research scored by Altmetric. Recently he obtained a research grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada to explore the cognitive mechanisms underlying boredom. He has been awarded the Ontario Psychological Association Harvey Brooker Award for Excellence in Clinical Training, the Petro-Canada Young Innovator Award, and the Premier’s Research Excellence Award. Participant In: Boredom 2:30pm to 4:30pm, Saturday, April 21st, 2018 Past Event Watch the video » Schopenhauer described boredom as “a tame longing without any particular object,” Dostoevsky as “ a bestial and indefinable affliction,” and poet Joseph Brodsky as “time’s invasion of your world system.” Unsurprisingly, not many can describe boredom even though most have felt it, and it is one of the central preoccupations of the age. The most… read more »
Boredom 2:30pm to 4:30pm, Saturday, April 21st, 2018 Past Event Watch the video » Schopenhauer described boredom as “a tame longing without any particular object,” Dostoevsky as “ a bestial and indefinable affliction,” and poet Joseph Brodsky as “time’s invasion of your world system.” Unsurprisingly, not many can describe boredom even though most have felt it, and it is one of the central preoccupations of the age. The most… read more »