Dr Sandi Mann

Sandi Mann lectures in Organizational Psychology at the University of Central Lancashire and is a consultant specializing in stress and emotions.  She is a regular contributor to various media outlets on these issues, including radio, television and print media.  She is the co-author of Would I Lie to You?  with Dr Paul Seager  and also co-authored  This Book Has Feelings  – Adventures in the Philosophy and Psychology of your Mind (New Burlington Books 2010)

Sandi has written two titles in Hodder’s Teach Yourself series – Manage Your Anger ( 2012) and Overcome Phobias and Panic Attacks  (2013) and has also written on the subject of Emotion (Hodder, 2014).

Spring 2016 saw the publication of The Upside of Downtime – why boredom is good (Robinson) in which Sandi explores the causes and consequences of boredom in the fast-paced 21st century.

This is explored again in an interview [19.04.2020] with Giles Coren on talkRadio with special relevance to current events: 

“..I just totally love your book;  I saw you quoted in a piece in the Sunday Times and thought this looks interesting… then I read your book and it was just brilliant, I found it just fascinating: just the right level of science, what happens to our brain, the evolutionary, the anthropological aspects.  And it’s funny..”

“You talk in the book about different kinds of boredom – if people are bored now…what kind of boredom? – is it situational boredom we are in at the moment [lockdown]..?”

“One wonders if the thing we call boredom isn’t really boredom. It’s that we are feeling a lack of artificial external stimulation provided by giant companies faraway.  I think the thing we call boredom may possibly be lack of distraction.”

see link for the full interview: https://talkradio.co.uk/radio/listen-again/1587319200#  click on ’20:00 – 20:30′ and start at 3.30 mins.

 

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