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thatjoist on July 5, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Study participants typically did not enjoy spendin...

People can think anywhere. It's not often they're sat in a room with a little electric shock doodad. Humanities natural curiosity takes over.

tormeh on July 5, 2014 [–]

You shock yourself 189 times, and you're still curious, so you shock yourself yet again? Unlikely.

burntsushi on July 5, 2014 | [–]

That was a single outlier. The mean number of shocks was 1.5.

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