What makes someone a bore? According to recent research, complaining a lot, lacking opinions, and not being funny are all part of it. Here's what else we've learned.
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The most boring occupations included almost anything associated with data entry, finance, insurance, or taxation: Accountants, bankers, insurance agents, statisticians, actuaries, and financial advisers are apparently in the high-risk-of-being-boring category. People in “cleaning” occupations, such as dishwashers and janitors, also scored high on the boring index, as did store clerks and office workers.
So, if you are an accountant who complains a lot and is not known for your sense of humor, you had better watch out, especially if you like to fuss with your bird feeder on your way to church.Dr. van Tilburg and his research team incorporated the qualities unearthed in the first two studies into short descriptions of hypothetical individuals who possessed combinations of these qualities that were very high, very low, or somewhere in-between on how boring they were judged to be.
The results indicated that people who were thought to be boring were perceived as being less interpersonally warm and less competent than more interesting people and that we will go to great lengths to avoid socializing with such individuals. In fact, in one of the studies, they asked people to actually say how much they would demand to be paid to hang out with the hypothetical people for a period of time ranging from one to seven days.
As always, there are limitations to the studies I just described. All of the participants in these online studies were from the U.K. or the United States, and it is reasonable to think that one’s culture’s norms and values will exert a strong influence on what is perceived as boring and what is not, so the stereotypes of a bore might be different from place to place.Unfortunately, there are serious social costs to being boring.
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