“I've got a magic charmThat I keep up my sleeve,I can walk the ocean floorAnd never have to breathe,” “Life Doesn’t Frighten Me” by Maya Angelou “Should I do this or not?” Tell me you didn’t ask yourself this question when it came to buying a house, having a child, getting married or divorced, accepting …
The Art of Suffering for Nothing
Would you be willing to eat a worm? Would you be willing to get electric shocks? As bizarre as these questions may be, they were part of an experiment whose findings were revealed (among others) by the psychologists Ronald Comer and James D. Laird in a 1975 article. The experiment went like this: the subjects …
