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Nov 4, 2014 · On balance, impatience is probably rewarded more today than it was 50 years ago, but still much less than it was on the savannah. This much is clear: We have more...
On balance, impatience is probably rewarded more today than it was 50 years ago, but still much less than it was on the savannah. This much is clear: We have more opportunities to be...
Sep 3, 2019 · Patience is a virtue, but it's becoming an exceedingly rare quality in modern society. According to a new survey, all of the luxuries of modern life have made most people incredibly impatient -- across pretty much every aspect of their lives.
Dec 18, 2023 · Across six studies by Roberts and colleagues, subjects felt the highest levels of impatience as the end of the waiting period approached—regardless of how long they had already been waiting.
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Mar 3, 2020 · We find increasing impatience and decreasing impatience to be the most prevalent. This implies that regardless of subjects’ tendency to prefer to wait for or speed up the reception of certain outcome, their willingness to wait decreases by delays.
- Stefan A. Lipman, Arthur E. Attema
- 10.1371/journal.pone.0229784
- 2020
- PLoS One. 2020; 15(3): e0229784.
Mar 27, 2018 · How to Overcome Impatience. We are an impatient society. When I was working with teenagers 30 years ago the average attention span of teens was “just” three minutes. By today’s standards, three minutes seems like an eternity!
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Nov 5, 2014 · On balance, impatience is probably rewarded more today than it was 50 years ago, but still much less than it was on the savannah. This much is clear: We have more...
