Positive and negative anticipation
A study from the University of British Columbia analyzed the effects of positive and negative anticipation.
The conclusions show that we tend to want a yummy snack immediately but prefer to delay paying our bills. This seems to make intuitive sense, but the researchers wanted to dig deeper into the role of anticipation.
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