Affiliation:
1. Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
2. Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Abstract
Don't leave me alone with my thoughts
Nowadays, we enjoy any number of inexpensive and readily accessible stimuli, be they books, videos, or social media. We need never be alone, with no one to talk to and nothing to do. Wilson
et al.
explored the state of being alone with one's thoughts and found that it appears to be an unpleasant experience. In fact, many of the people studied, particularly the men, chose to give themselves a mild electric shock rather than be deprived of external sensory stimuli.
Science
, this issue p.
75
Publisher
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Cited by
352 articles.
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