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The psychology of impatience could make waiting more tolerable (psyche.co)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/psychology
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

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 3 points 9 months ago

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

[–] littlebluespark 2 points 9 months ago

Those wings are on upside down.