Martarelli, C. S., Rewitz, K., & Wolff, W. (2026). An analysis of the associations between boredom, effort value, and exercise behavior. Performance Enhancement & Health.
Radtke, V., Wolff, W., & Martarelli, C. S. (2025). How effortful is boredom? Studying self-control demands through pupillometry. Collabra.
Radtke, V., Martarelli, C. S., & Wolff, W. (2025). Task-related effort – Distinguishing boredom- and difficulty-related effort via electrodermal activity. Physiology & Behavior.
Wolff, W., Özay Otgonbayar, S., Danckert, J., Bieleke, M., & Martarelli, C. S. (2025). Effort and boredom shape our experience of time. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews.
Schnyder, S., Dall'Olio, L., Dubach, J., Tempelmann, S., Cacchione, T., & Martarelli, C. S. (2025). Are primary schools ready for immersive virtual reality? Resistance among stakeholders. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.
Lapteva, A., Schnyder, S., Wolff, W., & Martarelli, C. S. (2025). Bore me (not): Boredom impairs recognition memory but not the pupil old/new effect. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.
Martarelli, C. S., & Mast, F. W. (2025). The long-lasting legacy of early experimental studies in visual mental imagery. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 51(3), 300–302.
Holgado, D., Cailleux, A., Ruggeri, P., Martarelli, C. S., Bekinschtein, T. A., Sanabria, D., & Place, N. (2025). Individualized cognitive effort to failure does not impact subsequent strenuous physical performance. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise.
Martarelli, C. S., Dubach, J., Schelleis, N., Cacchione, T., & Tempelmann, S. (2025). Virtual reality in primary science education: Improving knowledge of the water cycle. Educational Technology Research and Development.
Bieleke, M., Wolff, W., & Martarelli, C. S. (Eds.). (2024). The Routledge International Handbook of Boredom. Routledge.
Bieleke, M., Wolff, W., & Martarelli C.S. (2024). Boredom is not boring: From everyday experience to a powerful signal and beyond. In M. Bieleke, W. Wolff & C. S. Martarelli (Eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of Boredom. Routledge.
Bieleke, M., Wolff, W., Martarelli C.S., et al. 2024). Overview of current directions in boredom research. In M. Bieleke, W. Wolff & C. S. Martarelli (Eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of Boredom. Routledge.
Martarelli, C. S., & Baillifard, A. (2024). Mind-wandering as an exploratory response to boredom. In M. Bieleke, W. Wolff & C. S. Martarelli (Eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of Boredom. Routledge.
Martarelli, C. S., & Jost, N. S. (2024). Methodological approaches to boredom and its measurement. In M. Bieleke, W. Wolff & C. S. Martarelli (Eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of Boredom. Routledge.
Wolff, W., Radtke, V. C., & Martarelli, C. S. (2024). Same same but different – What is boredom actually? In M. Bieleke, W. Wolff & C. S. Martarelli (Eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of Boredom. Routledge.
Lapteva, A., & Martarelli, C. S. (2024). Pupil old/new effect as an objective measure of recognition memory: A meta-analysis of 17 eye-tracking experiments. Memory, 1–16.
Baillifard, A., Ertz, O., Lecorney, S., & Martarelli, C. S. (2024). Mythes écologiques du numérique [Chronique]. Formation et Profession, 32(1), 1-5.
Baillifard, A., Gabella, M., Lavenex, P. B., & Martarelli, C. S. (2024). Effective learning with a personal AI tutor: A case study. Education and Information Technologies.
Martarelli, C. S., Weibel, D., Popic, D., & Wolff, W. (2024). Time in suspense: Investigating boredom and related states in a virtual waiting room. Cognition and Emotion.
Meier, M., Martarelli, C. S., & Wolff, W. (2024). Is boredom a source of noise and/or a confound in behavioral science research? Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 11, 368.
Dall'Olio, L., Amrein, O., Gianettoni, L., & Martarelli, C. S. (2024). The impact of fantasy on young children’s recall: A virtual reality approach. Virtual Reality.
Ovalle-Fresa R., & Martarelli, C. S. (2024). Drawing is an efficient encoding tool in younger but not always in older adults: The case of associative memory. Memory & Cognition.
Martarelli, C. S., & Ovalle-Fresa, R. (2024). In sight out of mind? Disengagement at encoding gradually reduces recall of location. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 77, 42-56.
Martarelli, C. S., Chiquet, S., & Ertl, M. (2023). Keeping track of reality: Embedding visual memory in natural behavior. Memory, 31, 1295-1305.
Wolff, W., Bieleke, M., & Martarelli, C. S. (2023). Boredom, performance & health. Performance Enhancement & Health, 11(3), 100252.
Martarelli, C. S., Baillifard, A., Audrin, C. (2023). A trait-based network perspective on the validation of the French Short Boredom Proneness Scale. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 39, 390-399.
Martarelli, C. S., Berthouzoz, P., Bieleke, M., & Wolff, W. (2023). Bored of sports? Investigating the interactive role of engagement and value as predictors of boredom in athletic training. Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology, 12(2), 141–154.
Bieleke, M., Martarelli, C. S., & Wolff, W. (2023). If-then planning, self-control, and boredom as predictors of adherence to social distancing guidelines: Evidence from a two-wave longitudinal study with a behavioral intervention. Current Psychology, 42, 9095-9108
Chiquet, S., Martarelli, C.S., Weibel, D., & Mast, F.W. (2023). Learning by teaching in immersive virtual reality – Absorption tendency increases learning outcomes. Learning and Instruction, 84, 101716.
Martarelli, C. S., Ovalle-Fresa, R., Popic, D., Globig, L. K., & Rothen, N. (2022). Reinstating location improves mnemonic access but not fidelity of visual mental representations. Cortex, 156, 39-53.
Chiquet, S., Martarelli, C.S., & Mast, F.W. (2022). Imagery-related eye movements in 3D space depend on individual differences in visual object imagery. Scientific Reports, 12, 14136.
Baillifard, A., & Martarelli, C. S. (2022). Notes et taux de décrochage inébranlables durant la Covid-19 en enseignement universitaire à distance. Savoirs, 60.
Wolff, W., Bieleke, M., Englert, C., Bertrams, A., Schüler, J., & Martarelli, C. S. (2022). A single item measure of self-control – Validation and location in a nomological network of self-control, boredom, and if-then planning. Social Psychological Bulletin, 17, 1-22.
Baillifard, A. & Martarelli, C. (2022). Oui à l’ennui [Chronique]. Formation et Profession, 30.
Martarelli, C. S., & Mast, F. W. (2022). Pictorial low-level features in mental images: Evidence from eye fixations. Psychological Research, 86, 350-363.
Dubach, J., Schelleis, N., Bölsterli, K., Cacchione, T., Martarelli, C. S., Probst, M., & Tempelmann, S. (2022). Unzugängliche Welten für das erfahrungsbasierte Lernen erschließen. Immersive Virtuelle Realität im naturwissenschaftlichen Sachunterricht. In: Sachunterricht in der Informationsgesellschaft. Bad Heilbrunn: Verlag Julius Klinkhardt, S. 147-154.
Martarelli, C. S., Bertrams, A., & Wolff, W. (2021). A Personality trait-based network of boredom, spontaneous and deliberate mind-wandering. Assessment, 28, 1915–1931.
Martarelli, C. S., Pacozzi, S. G., Bieleke, M., & Wolff, W. (2021). High trait self-control and low boredom proneness help COVID-19 homeschoolers. Frontiers in Psychology, 12:594256.
Martarelli, C. S., Wolff, W., & Bieleke, M. (2021). Bored by bothering? A cost-value approach to pandemic boredom. Humanities and Social Sciences Communication, 8.
Chiquet, S., Martarelli, C.S., & Mast, F.W. (2021). Eye movements to absent objects during mental imagery and visual memory in immersive virtual reality. Virtual Reality, 25, 655-667.
Hartmann, M., Martarelli, C. S., & Sommer, N. R. (2021). Early is left and up: Saccadic responses reveal horizontal and vertical spatial associations of serial order in working memory. Cognition, 217.
Jost, N. S., Jossen, S. L., Rothen, N., & Martarelli, C. S. (2021). The advantage of distributed practice in a blended learning setting. Education and Information Technologies, 26, 3097-3113.
Umar, H., Mast, F. W., Cacchione, T., & Martarelli, C. S. (2021). The prioritization of visuo-spatial associations during mental imagery. Cognitive Processing, 22, 227-237.
Wolff, W., Bieleke, M., Martarelli, C.S., & Danckert J. (2021). A primer on the role of boredom in self-controlled sports and exercise behavior. Frontiers in Psychology, 12:637839.
Wolff, W., & Martarelli, C. S. (2020). Bored into depletion? Towards a tentative integration of perceived self-control exertion and boredom as guiding signals for goal-directed behavior. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 15, 1272-1283.
Popic, D., Pacozzi S. G., & Martarelli, C. S. (2020). Database of virtual objects to be used in psychological research. PLOS ONE, 15: e0238041.
Hartmann, M., Martarelli, C. S., Reber, T. P., & Rothen, N. (2020). Does a smartphone on the desk drain our brain? No evidence of cognitive costs due to smartphone presence in a short-term and prospective memory task. Consciousness and Cognition, 86.
Martarelli, C. S., & Wolff, W. (2020). Too bored to bother? Boredom as a potential threat to the efficacy of pandemic containment measures. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 7.
Wolff, W., Martarelli, C. S., Schüler, J., & Bieleke, M. (2020). High boredom proneness and low trait self-control impair adherence to social distancing guidelines during the COVID-19 pandemic. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17, 5420.
Globig, L. K., Hartmann, M., & Martarelli, C. S. (2019). Vertical head movements influence memory performance for words with emotional content. Frontiers in Psychology, 10: 672.
Englert, C., Koroma, D., Bertrams, A., & Martarelli, C. S. (2019). Testing the validity of the attention control video: An eye-tracking approach of the ego depletion effect. PLOS ONE,14: e0211181.
Martarelli, C. S. (2019). On the link between phenomenal causality and personality dominance. Cognitive Processing, 20, 117-123.
Martarelli, C. S., Feurer, E., Dapp, L. C. & Roebers, C. M. (2018). Profiles of executive functions and social skills in the transition to school: A person-centred approach. Infant and Child Development, 27: e2114.
Weibel, D., Martarelli, C. S., Häberli, D., & Mast, F. W. (2018). The fantasy questionnaire: A measure to assess imaginative and creative fantasy. Journal of Personality Assessment, 100, 431-443.
Martarelli, C. S., Chiquet, S., Laeng, B., & Mast, F. W. (2017). Using space to represent categories: Insights from gaze position. Psychological Research, 81, 721-729.
Martarelli, C. S., Mast, F. W., & Hartmann, M. (2017). Time in the eye of the beholder: Gaze position reveals spatial-temporal associations during encoding and memory retrieval of future and past. Memory & Cognition, 45, 40-48.
Martarelli, C. S., Mayer, B. & Mast, F. W. (2016). Daydreams and trait affect: The role of the listener’s state of mind in the emotional response to music. Consciousness and Cognition, 46, 27-35.
Wantz, A. L., Martarelli, C. S., Cazzoli, D., Kalla, R., Müri, R., & Mast, F. W. (2016). Disrupting frontal eye-field activity impairs memory recall. NeuroReport, 27, 374-378.
Wantz, A. L., Martarelli, C. S., & Mast, F. W. (2016). When looking back to nothing goes back to nothing. Cognitive Processing, 17, 105-114.
Stocker, K., Hartmann, M., Martarelli, C. S., & Mast, F. W. (2016). Eye movements reveal mental scanning through time. Cognitive Science, 40, 1648-1670.
Martarelli, C. S., Mast, F. W., Läge, D., & Roebers, C. M. (2015). The distinction between real and fictional worlds: Investigating individual differences in fantasy understanding. Cognitive Development, 36, 111-126.
Martarelli, C. S., Borter, N., Bryjova, J., Mast, F. W., & Munsch, S. (2015). The influence of parent's body mass index on peer selection: An experimental approach using virtual reality. Psychiatry Research, 230, 5-12.
Martarelli, C. S., Gurtner, L. M., & Mast, F. W. (2015). School-age children show a bias toward fantasy classifications after playing platform games. Psychology of Popular Media Culture, 4, 351-359.
Hartmann, M., Martarelli, C. S., Mast, F. W., & Stocker, K. (2014). Eye movements during mental time travel follow a diagonal line. Consciousness and Cognition, 30, 201-209.
Martarelli, C. S., & Mast, F. W. (2013). Eye movements during long-term pictorial recall. Psychological Research, 77, 303-309.
Martarelli, C. S., & Mast, F. W. (2013). Is it real or is it fiction? Children’s bias toward reality. Journal of Cognition and Development, 14, 141-153.
Martarelli, C. S., & Mast, F. W. (2011). Preschool children’s eye movements during pictorial recall. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 29, 425-436.
Canevascini, M., Martarelli, C. S., & Lettieri, K. (2008). Évaluation d'une association régionale de prévention du suicide en Suisse, Santé Publique, 20, 275-284.
Memory, learning, mental imagery
Psychological aspects related to performance
Boredom, mind-wandering, effort
Lifespan
Virtual reality
Faculté de psychologie