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People would rather get electric shock than sit alone for 6 min


               
2015 Oct 26, 11:22am   1,657 views  2 comments

by Heraclitusstudent   follow (8)  

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.

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1   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.

2   HEY YOU   2015 Oct 27, 10:27am  

I have no problem sitting or being alone. The voices in my head keep me entertained.

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