Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Science. 2014 Jul 4;345(6192):75-7. doi: 10.1126/science.1250830.
In 11 studies, we found that participants typically did not enjoy spending 6 to 15 minutes in a room by themselves with nothing to do but think, that they enjoyed doing mundane external activities much more, and that many preferred to administer electric shocks to themselves instead of being left alone with their thoughts. Most people seem to prefer to be doing something rather than nothing, even if that something is negative.
在 11 项研究中，我们发现参与者通常不喜欢在一个没有任何事情可做、只能自己思考的房间里待上 6 到 15 分钟，他们更喜欢做平凡的外部活动，许多人更愿意给自己电击，也不愿自己一个人思考。大多数人似乎更愿意做些什么，而不是什么都不做，即使做的是消极的事情。
