Perhaps the discomfort of boredom...
Surprisingly, two-thirds of the men and a quarter of the women ...
Earlier in the experiment, some participants said they would pay money to avoid being shocked, ...
In a second experiment, people were put in the same distraction-free room and ...
One man strangely shocked himself...
They were left with a battery that ...
Why anyone would prefer an electric shock to...
being alone with their own thoughts is a mystery.
they could choose to shock themselves with, and many of them did.
190 times over the short time period.
preferred mild physical pain to being alone with their thoughts.
is what truly separates humans from animals.
but once boredom set in, that idea went out the window.
again told to think of anything they wanted, but this time they were given one possible distraction.