We Have Achieved Our Eccentricity Quota

[danalwyn]

Crazy, WTF, "Stand back, we're about to try science!" research result of the day:

Participants were asked to make eight choices; each was between receiving a small, but immediate, reward and a larger, but delayed, reward. For example, they could choose to receive either $16 tomorrow or $30 in 35 days.

The researchers found that the people with full bladders were better at holding out for the larger reward later. Other experiments reinforced this link; for example, in one, just thinking about words related to urination triggered the same effect.

From this press release for a paper slated to appear in the APS journal Psychological Science. Hat tip to Tyler Cowen.

Comments

[silverjackal]

Heh. I'm at work and so can't follow the links, but I'm very curious as to how they came up with this potential connection to begin with.

Excuse me, please, I must go do science now. Nothing as glamorous as the above, unfortunately... :D