People will take pain over being left alone with their thoughts
Given a choice of electric shocks vs. quiet contemplation, some choose shocks
THINK NOT People generally dislike and avoid being alone with their thoughts and in a surprising number of cases prefer mild electric shocks to quiet contemplation, a new study finds.
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