你可能会无聊，但是你的无聊健康吗？或者说你的无聊会对身体有害、甚至会要了你的命吗？
You may be bored, but do you have the healthy type of boredom? Or the type that may harm or even kill you?
无聊越来越多地和一系列健康问题联系在一起。而心理学家们也开始相信，不止有一种无聊--有些人甚至认为无聊的种类多达五种。
Boredom is increasingly being linked to a range of health problems. And psychologists have come to believe there is more than one type — some suggest that there may be as many as five.
一项研究表示，“错误”的无聊会使我们发胖、自我毁灭和性无能。它还有可能会导致我们早死。
Emerging research shows experiencing the 'wrong' sort of boredom can make us obese, self-destructive, and sexually impotent. It may also lead us to earlier death.
但是正确的无聊可以培养我们的诸如创造力、抗压性和幸福等积极的特质。
But the right type can foster positive traits such as creativity, resilience and happiness.
不过奇怪的是，“健康地无聊”似乎看起来单调乏味。但是根据去年《心理学研究》期刊上的一篇研究表示，大多数人都宁愿死也不愿无聊。
Oddly, it seems that the way to get 'healthily bored' is to embrace tedium. But most of us would rather electrocute ourselves than suffer boredom, according to a study published in the journal Psychological Research last year.
69名志愿者被关在实验室中，在15分钟长的时间内什么事儿都不会发生。但是这些志愿者们可以选择用实验室的设备电击自己。
Sixty-nine volunteers were placed in a lab environment where nothing happened for 15 minutes at a stretch. But the volunteers could use lab equipment to give themselves electric shocks.
据马斯特里赫特大学的研究人员表示，他们越无聊就越有可能电击自己--而且程度会逐渐加强。
The more bored they were, the more likely they were to give themselves shocks — increasingly intense ones at that, say the Maastricht University investigators.
据肯特和南安普顿大学的一项研究表明，更为常见的是，我们无聊时就会很容易吃上令人发胖的零食。
More commonly, when bored, we are prone to gorge on fattening snacks, according to a study involving the universities of Kent and Southampton.
心理学家要求140人记录下他们的情绪和进食量，并且在实验室做了测试来监测他们的饮食。
Psychologists asked 140 people to record their food intake and moods, and do lab tests to monitor their eating.
据《心理学前沿》于2015年报道称，他们在无聊时不仅会摄入更多热量，还会吃一些高脂肪、高碳水化合物和高蛋白质的垃圾食品。
They not only ate more calories when bored, but were most likely to eat junk food high in fats, carbs and protein, reported the journal Frontiers In Psychology, in 2015.