The Effects of Electric Shocks on the Mind

When people are facing a one per cent risk of an electric shock in their minds, it feels as if you were talking about a ninety nine per cent risk. So when you think about getting a shock, that thought creates a feeling in you of anxiety. And that feeling of anxiety is the same feeling if you're thinking about it with one per cent or chance or ninety nine per cent. You're still thinking about the shock. Therefore the mind does not modulate or multiply that feeling from the shock image by its probability. That o feeling system doesn't do multiplication. When i read experiment, i should have tried to put myself in the shoes of the volunteers. The thing that my mind went