{"id":95428,"date":"2014-07-03T23:48:46","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T19:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=95428"},"modified":"2014-07-03T23:48:46","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T19:48:46","slug":"study-just-thinking-by-yourself-isnt-much-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=95428","title":{"rendered":"Study: Just Thinking by Yourself Isn&#8217;t Much Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/alone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-95425\" alt=\"alone\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/alone.jpg\" width=\"377\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/alone.jpg 628w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/alone-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/alone-459x300.jpg 459w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 377px) 100vw, 377px\" \/><\/a>You might think you&#8217;d love to escape this busy world and spend some time alone with your thoughts. But a new study of people who did that shows that many of them found it wasn&#8217;t very fun.<\/p>\n<p>Some even started giving themselves electric shocks as the minutes ticked by, apparently out of boredom.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the study found that when people were left alone to think for six to 15 minutes, they rated the experience on average in about the middle of a 9-point scale of enjoyment. About half gave it a rating at the halfway mark or below.<\/p>\n<p>The study was released Thursday by the journal Science.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might think you&#8217;d love to escape this busy world and spend some time alone&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-news","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}