Would you rather sit and think or get shocked? You'd be surprised

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Would you rather sit and think or get shocked? You'd be surprised

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/rather-sit-think-shocked-youd-surprised-183035937.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/yKRnAkE9NzgyxIYNoV6Lfw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-07-03T211403Z_1_LYNXMPEA620YX_RTROPTP_2_SCIENCE-THINKING.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="University of Virginia photo of professor Timothy Wilson" align="left" title="University of Virginia photo of professor Timothy Wilson" border="0" /></a>In fact, some of the volunteers, men in particular, in one of the 11 experiments led by University of Virginia researchers preferred to administer mild electrical shocks to themselves rather than sit and do nothing. &quot;Many people find it difficult to use their own minds to entertain themselves, at least when asked to do it on the spot,&quot; said University of Virginia psychology professor Timothy Wilson, who led the study appearing in the journal Science. Some experiments involved only college students.</p><br clear="all"/>

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