People would rather get electric shock than sit alone for 6 min
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2015 Oct 26, 11:22am 1,632 views 2 comments
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Dan8267
2015 Oct 26, 2:25pm
Dan8267
2015 Oct 26, 2:25pm
Shocking but true: students prefer jolt of pain to being made to sit and think
That's why we get CICs.
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HEY YOU
2015 Oct 27, 10:27am
I have no problem sitting or being alone. The voices in my head keep me entertained.
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jul/03/electric-shock-preferable-to-thinking-says-study
(without a smartphone)
"What is striking is that simply being alone with their thoughts was apparently so aversive that it drove many participants to self-administer an electric shock that they had earlier said they would pay to avoid," the scientists write in Science.