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The psychology of impatience could make waiting more tolerable

The psychology of impatience could make waiting more tolerable | Psyche Ideas

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New studies on the experience of impatience suggest there’s more to it than simply how long you’ve been left hanging

The psychology of impatience could make waiting more tolerable | Psyche Ideas

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But when you’re stuck waiting for a ride, or a table in a restaurant, for a projected amount of time, there’s little or nothing you can do to reach your goal faster – you can’t simply wait harder to speed things up.

WAIT HARDER

jyunwai

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The submitted article references an open-access research paper published in Social Psychological and Personality Science (SPPS) at: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/19485506231209002

bus_factor

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Makes sense. I'm always more impatient at the end of a long flight than in the first 8 hours.

littlebluespark

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Those wings are on upside down.