Waiting in lines helps to improve financial discipline

Nobody likes to be waiting in a supermarket queue or the post office, but you should know that form an orderly line can do you good. According to a new study, maybe waiting in lines have more patience, take better financial decisions and experiences a greater reward in the end.

Scientists have discovered that people who wait in lines assign a higher value to the goods for which they hope. This, in turn, makes them more patients, to believe that your purchase was worth.

The University of Chicago study found that, even in an era of instant gratification, people still waiting in queues for something they feel it was worth the wait.

Those who hope for a substantial period of time assign a value greater that you've been waiting for than those who were given the same long before. The results also show that those who waited longer gained patience, but also ultimately make the best decision.

"People tend to value things more in the present and depreciate its value in the future," said the researcher Ayelet Fischbach. "But my research suggests that making people wait to make a decision can enhance your patience, because the waiting process makes this seem more valuable."

Behind all this is a process that psychologists call self perception-we know what we want and we prefer to evaluate our own behaviour, in the same way that we learn about the others by observing their attitudes.

The results of tests conducted on three groups of volunteers are published in the Journal of Organisational Behaviour and Human Decision Processes.

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