{"id":18174,"date":"2014-07-04T09:46:43","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T09:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/research\/humans-dislike-spending-time-with-their-own-thoughts\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T16:15:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T10:45:26","slug":"humans-dislike-spending-time-with-their-own-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"research","link":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/humans-dislike-spending-time-with-their-own-thoughts","title":{"rendered":"Humans dislike spending time with their own thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Social psychologist Timothy Wilson at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and his team found that most people have a \u201cdisengaged mind.\u201d Wilson\u2019s team conducted a study in which participants were asked to spend 15 minutes alone without any means of entertainment. The participants felt so distressed that they preferred mild electric shocks to spend time alone with their own thoughts.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Read more in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/we-dislike-being-alone-with-our-thoughts-1.15508\"><em>Nature<\/em><\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":33313,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"new_tags":[],"series":[],"subject":[2874],"class_list":["post-18174","research","type-research","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","subject-psychology-and-neuroscience"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Humans dislike spending time with their own thoughts | Editage Insights<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Social psychologist Timothy Wilson at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and his team found that most people have a \u201cdisengaged mind.\u201d Wilson\u2019s team conducted a study in which participants were asked to spend 15 minutes alone without any means of entertainment. 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