Yonsei University, 50 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 03722, South Korea.
Yale School of Management, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
Curr Opin Psychol. 2019 Apr;26:90-93. doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2018.06.005. Epub 2018 Jun 22.
Many decisions people make involve intertemporal tradeoffs between current and future costs and benefits. Because outcomes in such decisions are separated by time (i.e., delay), the perception of time should play an important role. Traditionally, researchers have treated time as objective information (i.e., calendar time) and examined the effect of different delays on intertemporal preference. Recently, researchers have started to take into account the subjective nature of future time perception and to use psychological (subjective) time rather than objective calendar time as a focal explanatory variable for intertemporal preference. The subjective nature of future time perception and its impact on intertemporal preference has particular significance because it implies that one's impatience can be reduced by altering his or her time perception.
人们做出的许多决策都涉及当前和未来成本与收益之间的跨期权衡。由于此类决策的结果具有时间间隔（即延迟），因此时间感知应该发挥重要作用。传统上，研究人员将时间视为客观信息（即日历时间），并研究了不同延迟对跨期偏好的影响。最近，研究人员开始考虑未来时间感知的主观性，并使用心理（主观）时间而不是客观日历时间作为跨期偏好的焦点解释变量。未来时间感知的主观性及其对跨期偏好的影响具有特殊意义，因为这意味着通过改变一个人的时间感知，可以减少他或她的不耐烦。
