162518 20251017144640.0 doi 10.1016/j.jesp.2025.104804 sideral 145089 ART-2025-145089 eng Müller-Boysen, Thekla On the relation between boredom and social behavior: A registered report 2025 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted Boredom plays an essential role in everyday life and is a powerful motivator. This registered report investigated the interpersonal consequences of boredom. We recruited participants online (N = 3568) and ran one experiment manipulating boredom with three variations of behavioral options as dependent variables: 1) prosocial and non-social, 2) antisocial and non-social, and 3) prosocial, antisocial, and non-social. First, we tested whether boredom increases the likelihood of individuals engaging in any type of behavior, including both social and non-social alternatives. We found no significant main effect of boredom on behavior. Second, we tested whether boredom increases the likelihood of individuals engaging in prosocial or antisocial behavior. No clear evidence emerged for a total effect of boredom on prosocial or antisocial behavior. Moderation analyses revealed no significant effect of the prosocial personality trait Honestly-Humility, and the antisocial personality trait D. In addition, mediation analyses showed that boredom reduces individuals' sense of agency, which in turn is associated with increased prosocial and antisocial behavior; boredom also reduces a sense of meaning, which in turn relates to increased prosocial behavior when only this social option is presented. Overall, this study examined the motivational aspect of boredom with regard to social behavior and the role of personality traits as moderators and lack of agency and meaning as mediators. info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.es info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Pirla, Sergio Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0001-5979-4528 Pfattheicher, Stefan 4012 650 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Direcc.Organiza.Empresas Área Organización de Empresas 121 (2025), 104804 [13 pp.] J. exp. soc. psychol. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY 0022-1031 2812334 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/162518/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 2748335 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/162518/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:162518 articulos driver 2025-10-17-14:31:28 ARTICLE