{"pk":26270,"title":"Gender Differences in the Effect of Impatience on Men and Women’sTiming Decisions","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Decisions over the timing of actions are critical in severalsafety, security and healthcare scenarios. These decisions, sim-ilar to discrete decisions, can be influenced by biases and in-dividual traits. In this paper, a bias of impatience is studiedin an experiment with 626 participants, with a focus on gen-der differences. Impatience was moderated with a manipula-tion of a variable-speed countdown. Men and women differedin how they expressed impatience. While men systematicallyand irrationally act earlier when become impatient followingthe slower countdowns, women react by irrationally request-ing earlier information about the outcome of each trial, andimpulsively pressing an inactive key.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"impatience; gender differences; decision-making;timing decisions; women; men"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/74w4w0r5","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Moojan","middle_name":"","last_name":"Ghafurian","name_suffix":"","institution":"The Pennsylvania State University","department":""},{"first_name":"David","middle_name":"","last_name":"Reitter","name_suffix":"","institution":"The Pennsylvania State University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2016-01-01T13:00:00-05:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26270/galley/15906/download/"}]}