Matching Pairs How animal are different from Online version Deep English; Match the columns by Oksana Koval 1 One man strangely shocked himself... 2 Perhaps the discomfort of boredom... 3 In a second experiment, people were put in the same distraction-free room and ... 4 Earlier in the experiment, some participants said they would pay money to avoid being shocked, ... 5 Surprisingly, two-thirds of the men and a quarter of the women ... 6 They were left with a battery that ... 7 Why anyone would prefer an electric shock to... being alone with their own thoughts is a mystery. but once boredom set in, that idea went out the window. 190 times over the short time period. is what truly separates humans from animals. preferred mild physical pain to being alone with their thoughts. they could choose to shock themselves with, and many of them did. again told to think of anything they wanted, but this time they were given one possible distraction.