bonds, their emotions and friendships, and their subsequent relation to anorexia nervosa. The research has focused on their …

In this paper we try to quantify the social cost of hospital waiting lists in Galicia, on the basis of the model by … Cullis and Jones (1986). From official data of waiting lists for outpatient appointments published by the Galician Health … Service (Sergas) and a survey of specialist doctors in the province of A Coruña, we estimate that the cost of waiting lists is …

waiting (and hence unemployment) state and start a new job. It is shown that as a result of the individual’s exercising the … optimal timing strategy, there is a duration of “waiting” and that this duration is affected by a number of economic factors …

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 …

cultures perceive lines and waiting through the same lens. As discussed herein, perceptions regarding waiting and management of … queues vary greatly; therefore, managers should adopt different policies and procedures when managing waiting lines across … locally—can prioritize and clarify important decisions any waiting-line manager has to make. …

by functional and social value. Research limitations/implications – Limitations include using an Internet survey and an … Australian sample which may impact the generalisability of the findings to a wider population of Internet users. Future research … should involve replication of the study in a country more or less developed in terms of gender composition of internet users …