One such system of interest to Corey McCall, a doctoral candidate in Kovacs' lab, is the autonomic nervous system, the emotional part of the brain – the part that changes when you get excited or bored, happy or sad.
Although Connecticut may have a "reputation as a boring but happy place of white-glove politics and private beaches," that's not all there is to Connecticut.
But the intimate look it offers into the experiences of people who exist in a boring but happy limbo — popping down to Paris for the weekend, driving to Hamburg, flying to Vienna, skiing the Swiss Alps — makes "The Expats" thoroughly captivating.
Despite its reputation as a boring but happy place of white-glove politics and private beaches, Connecticut has long been fertile ground for an intense underground music movement known, incongruously enough, as Connecticut hardcore.
If Mr Brown goes on and on, don't be bored, be happy - you can wager on an epic of more than an hour at 9/4 with Stan James, or 9/1 for more than 65 minutes with Ladbrokes.
The prospect of a more powerful Scottish government, said Mr Cameron, meant that the time had come at last to grapple with the West Lothian question, a British constitutional oddity that has kept political scientists and pub bores in happy disagreement for decades.
The reality of marriage is that sometimes, it's just a day to day grind - one or both of you may be tense, on edge, bored, not happy with the other one, not feel so warm and fuzzy.
Happy, boring memories ….
Contemporary sophistication declares that peace is boring, moderation is blah, happy is sappy.
"Denmark is kind of boring, but I'm happy here".
