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1 .This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This'll just take a minute.
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2 .How often have you longed to have time to just sit quietly and think?
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3 .Well, be careful what you wish for.
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4 .Because a study shows that many people find such interludes incredibly unpleasant.
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5 .So uncomfortable, in fact, that they would rather zap themselves with electricity than be left alone with their thoughts.
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6 .The shocking results appear in the journal Science.
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7 .In the experiment, participants were asked to sit alone in a room for up to 15 minutes¡ with no cell phone, no reading material, no music,
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8 .so, nothing to entertain them, save their own rambling thoughts.
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9 .Afterward, most subjects reported that they found it difficult to concentrate and that they did not enjoy the experience.
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10 .Then, to assess just how much subjects disliked doing nothing, the researchers repeated the experiment.
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11 .Only this time they gave volunteers the added option of occasionally giving themselves a mild electric jolt.
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12 .Two thirds of the men in the study and one quarter of the women chose to take advantage of the shock option at least once during their time out.
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13 .The results suggest that if there's anything worse than losing your mind, it's getting caught alone with it.
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14 .Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin.
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