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This is Scientific Americans' 60-second science. I'm Karen Hopkins. This will just take a minute.

How often have you longed to have time to just sit quietly and think? Well, be careful what you wish for,

because a study shows that many people find such interludes incredibly unpleasant, so uncomfortable,

in fact, that they would rather zap themselves with electricity than be left alone with their thoughts.

The shocking results appear in the journal Science.

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.

So nothing to entertain them save their own rambling thoughts.

Afterward, most subjects reported that they found it difficult to concentrate and that they did not

enjoy the experience. Then, to assess just how much subjects disliked doing nothing, the researchers

repeated the experiment. Only this time, they gave the volunteers the added option of

occasionally giving

themselves a mild electric jolt. 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 timeout. The results

suggests that if there's anything worse than losing your mind, it's getting caught alone with it.

Thanks for the minute. For Scientific Americans, 60 Second Science, I'm Karen Hopkins.