Why anyone would prefer an electric shock to...
Perhaps the discomfort of boredom...
They were left with a battery that ...
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...
Surprisingly, two-thirds of the men and a quarter of the women ...
again told to think of anything they wanted, but this time they were given one possible distraction.
being alone with their own thoughts is a mystery.
preferred mild physical pain to being alone with their thoughts.
but once boredom set in, that idea went out the window.
190 times over the short time period.
they could choose to shock themselves with, and many of them did.
is what truly separates humans from animals.