It's also possible, however, that the guiltiest study participants were simply right in their estimation of the uselessness of doing nothing — for them,
playing a
videogame or indulging in a Simpsons marathon really might not help much with their stress levels, making them completely correct in telling themselves to
stop wasting time.
Yet when you
stop and consider this, it makes absolutely no sense; we
play videogames alone all the time, engaging in campaigns that can consume hundreds of hours of our lives and deem that perfectly acceptable.