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They where not allowed to communicate with friends for 8 hours and stripped of their usual entertainment, while normally they would spend most time in school, s
by anotheryou 10y ago
They where not allowed to communicate with friends for 8 hours and stripped of their usual entertainment, while normally they would spend most time in school, sports clubs and with their families?
I think you could have done this experiment 20 years ago and get the same results.
What will be different nowadays is that your friends are always an your pocket. A situation where you are confronted with something emotional and unable to talk to a friend right away might be more unusual and frightening than it was 20 years ago.
Maybe kids 20 years ago could handle boredom better, but I think this study has too many flaws to judge about that.
- gus_massa 10y agoJust to make this more clear, IIUC they were not allowed to go to the home of a friend and pay a visit, or play with their siblings, or ...
- Broken_Hippo 10y agoI was a teenager 20 years ago, and I'm not so sure about that. My brother was an actual child then. The equivelent would have been to take away all social contact, plus television and video games and some freedom of movement to see folks for 8 hours. It wasn't like I generally had 8 hours to myself back then - between school and homework and chores and church (parents insisted) and the few friends and outings I did have, I simply didn't have that. And then, suddenly, some person doing an experiment wants to isolate me for 8 hours? I'd have been horribly bored as well.
- anotheryou 10y agoExactly. Even staying at home alone while the supervising parent went shopping sometimes got boring after the first 30 minutes. Albeit no horrible experience, I went along shopping most of the time, not to stay home alone.