Shocking or Not?: The Percentage of Men Who Chose to Shock Themselves Than Be Alone with Thoughts

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When broken down over 11 studies, sixty-seven percent of men pressed a button to shock themselves when put alone in a room with nothing but their thoughts.

In comparison, just twenty-five percent of women pressed the same button under the same conditions.

Entitled,  “Just think: The challenges of the disengaged mind”, in Science Magazine, July 2014, researchers concluded that,

In 11 studies, we found that participants typically did not enjoy spending 6 to 15 minutes in a room by themselves with nothing to do but think, that they enjoyed doing mundane external activities much more, and that many preferred to administer electric shocks to themselves instead of being left alone with their thoughts. Most people seem to prefer to be doing something rather than nothing, even if that something is negative.

Are you shocked?

 

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