Anticipating something horrible can be horrible in itself. When given the choice of receiving an immediate strong electrical shock versus a milder one in the future, most participants opted to receive the more intense shock right away. https://t.co/gYPdcg
@paulbloomatyale Who needs the pleasures of anticipation when you have the pains of dread? https://t.co/gk2Np12CEL people will “get pain over with” even if it means making the pain worse - shows foresight is recursive (we anticipate the costs of our own
@mcarlson_sb Meanwhile the anticipation of eventually having to acknowledge it continues to be felt as real pain: https://t.co/A4X498qJFC
"it is unclear whether dread represents a stable component of value" https://t.co/h6SZZS73O0