Dai, Xianchi; Fishbach, Ayelet - In: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 121 (2013) 2, pp. 256-266
We explore how waiting to choose influences patience. We propose that waiting to make an intertemporal choice increases … the assumed value of the items for which people are waiting, leading them to become more patient. Five studies support … this model. Study 1 finds that after waiting to choose, people exhibit greater patience than if they had not waited or …