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Students choose shocks over boredom CHARGED TOPIC:Studies found that aversion to boredom affects most ages and income levels, while some students opted for electric shocks over silence. It was not so much how hard people found the challenge, but how far they would go to avoid it that left researchers gobsmacked. The task? To sit in a chair and do nothing but think. So unbearable did some participants find it that they took up the safe — but alarming — opportunity to give themselves mild electric shocks in an attempt to break the tedium. taipeitimes/News/world/archives/2014/07/05/2003594421
Posted on: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 16:31:24 +0000

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