To truly get a grip on how much people hate being alone with their thoughts, the researchers asked some of their participants whether theyd pay to avoid getting an electric shock; most would. But then, given 15 minutes on their own in an empty room, two-thirds of the male participants ended up giving themselves a shock to avoid the tedium of their own company. (And thats after they removed the data from one guy who gave himself 190 shocks in the 15 minutes.) A quarter of the women involved also give themselves a jolt. Being alone with their own thoughts for 15 min[utes] 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, as the authors put it. arstechnica/science/2014/07/men-would-rather-give-themselves-electric-shocks-than-sit-quietly/
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