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Shane W. Bench
Researcher at Texas A&M University
Publications - 23
Citations - 1315
Shane W. Bench is an academic researcher from Texas A&M University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Boredom & Cognition. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 23 publications receiving 1000 citations. Previous affiliations of Shane W. Bench include Washington State University & Utah State University Eastern.
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Discrete emotions predict changes in cognition, judgment, experience, behavior, and physiology: a meta-analysis of experimental emotion elicitations
TL;DR: Picture presentations were overall the most effective elicitor of discrete emotions and valence, valence-arousal, and approach-avoidance models of emotion were not as clearly supported.
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On the function of boredom.
Shane W. Bench,Heather C. Lench +1 more
TL;DR: It is argued that, while bored, attention to the current task is reduced, the experience of boredom is negative and aversive, and that boredom increases autonomic arousal to ready the pursuit of alternatives.
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Boredom as a seeking state: Boredom prompts the pursuit of novel (even negative) experiences
Shane W. Bench,Heather C. Lench +1 more
TL;DR: Findings reveal that boredom motivates people to seek out novel experiences that elicit different (even more negative) feelings.
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A dual-process account of the development of scientific reasoning: The nature and development of metacognitive intercession skills
Eric Amsel,Paul A. Klaczynski,Adam Johnston,Shane W. Bench,Jason Close,Eric Sadler,Rick Walker +6 more
TL;DR: Klaczynski et al. as mentioned in this paper explored the nature, development, and stability of metacognitive knowledge, which is critical to resolving conflict between analytic and experiential processing responses.
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Gender Gaps in Overestimation of Math Performance
TL;DR: This article found that women but not men who reported a more positive previous experience with math were more likely to overestimate their performance, while men overestimated their performance more than women, judging they had done better on the test than they actually had.