Don’t think: Put your fingers in the socket

2014-09-25 11:10:08

In a publication, scientists from the Universities of Virginia and Harvard, in the US, explain that humans have an enormous imaginative capacity and that, when we disconnect from the world, our mind assumes a mode of operation that they call “processing.” by default”, in which, above all, we think about ourselves. To date, it has not been studied whether people decide to use this mental mode frequently or, on the contrary, they avoid being alone with themselves and their thoughts. To study this question, researchers have carried out a series of experiments whose results are surprising.