Do you swipe through videos to combat boredom? Study says you’re making it worse

It's a common habit for us all – when we get bored, we take our phones out and start scrolling through videos. The research was done by University of Toronto to study the interesting habit of people to watch entertaining videos as a way of killing boredom. The research was done by the University of Toronto to study the interesting habit of people to watch entertaining videos as a way of killing boredom. Katy Tam, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Toronto and lead author of the study, said that the way to gain entertainment from watching videos and not end up intensifying our boredom is by staying focused on the content and minimising digital switching. How digital switching can trigger boredom When we scroll through digital content, we end up skipping the boring parts – by that logic, we should be killing boredom effectively.