"Thanks to recently published research by the University of Riverside psychologist Kate Sweeny and her colleagues, we have some data to use to help address these questions. Across three studies and a total of 1,401 participants, Sweeny et al. created a number of different hypothetical scenarios to see if they could isolate features of a person's environment that would help to predict their becoming more impatient."
"For instance, in one of her scenarios, imagine you are at the movies when a child nearby is being loud. A given participant in the study would be presented with one of two versions of this scenario. In one version, the parents of the child do not do anything to try to quiet their child down; in the other version, the parents try their hardest to keep the child quiet."
Across three studies with 1,401 participants, researchers used hypothetical scenarios to isolate environmental and interpersonal features that predict impatience. Scenarios manipulated factors such as situational unpleasantness, goal desire, and others' perceived responsibility for problems (blameworthiness). The noisy-child/more-or-less-responsible-parents vignette probed how others' actions alter impatience. Measured predictors included situational factors and individual differences: personality traits like agreeableness and mindfulness altered impatience likelihood. Practical implications include planning ahead, reducing unpleasant features in waiting environments, clarifying responsibility, and designing waiting spaces to minimize triggers that elevate impatience.
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