The Pain of Doing Nothing

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[–]Tom_Bombadil 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

About 65% of guy's shocked themselves during the waiting period experiment for the extra credit.

About ~25% of women shocked themselves during the waiting period experiment for the extra credit.

Everyone participating knows there's a trivial risk, and there's an incentive regardless of outcome.

This could be:
* a risk aversion experiment
* a verification of predicted outcome experiment
* a boredom vs action experiment
* an engineering aptitude (idiot) experiment, because engineers get shocked twice to confirm the shocks are delivered each time the button is pressed
* etc.
* etc.

Either way, the experiment's population was psych students probably 18-22 years of age.
Guys at this age are only slightly more reliable than prepubescent teenagers.
Half of them would shock their own dingus.

[–]jet199[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

It would be interesting to see it repeated around the world.

I actually think in collectivist cultures people might shock themselves more because being on their own would be more of a stress.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Do you think it would have an impact?

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Shouldn't the fear of looking weird hold them back?