POWRE: An Examination of Patience and Impatience in Social Context

POWRE：社会背景下耐心和不耐烦的检验

• 批准号: 9870586
• 负责人: Sally Blount
• 金额: $ 4.96万
• 依托单位: University of Chicago
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-07-15 至 1999-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9870586&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: POWRE; Examination; Patience; Impatience; Social

This award supports a pilot study for an innovative, new research stream studying what makes people patient and impatient. The investigator begins with the observation that people have goals both for attaining concrete outcomes and for the pace at which they attain them. In interdependent contexts, people must cope with competing pacing demands. Sometimes another person's pace is slower; sometimes, it is faster. In studying patience and impatience, she seeks to understand how people respond when someone else's pace is too slow, relative to their desires or expectations; i.e. how do people cope when their temporal goals are blocked in interdependent contexts? Holding the length of delay constant, the investigator suggests that there will be variability in the extent to which people experience such delays patiently or impatiently, and that this variability matters. If social life involves a sequence of delays and interactions, every delay is typically accompanied by a subsequent social interaction. How people respond to a given delay affects the subsequent interaction. Overall, it is suggested that patient responses to delays will lead to better interpersonal outcomes than impatient responses. Thus, the goal is to better understand the nature of patient and impatient responses in social delay contexts; namely, what are they as constructs, what are their antecedents, and what are their effects? During the award period, the investigator will conduct the pilot research and then prepare a large, multi-year grant proposal to support this research area in the future. The POWRE award is particularly appropriate for her because she has two years before tenure evaluation. Currently, less than 10% of the tenured professors at the Graduate Business School at University of Chicago are women. It is also appropriate because the investigator has been pursuing her career goals amid several challenging life transitions. The award will provide timely funding at a critical point in her research and professional development.

该奖项支持一项创新性新研究流的试点研究，研究是什么让人们有耐心和不耐烦。 调查人员首先观察到，人们对于实现具体成果以及实现目标的速度都有目标。 在相互依存的环境中，人们必须应对相互竞争的节奏需求。 有时另一个人的步伐较慢；有时，它更快。 在研究耐心和不耐烦时，她试图了解当别人的步伐相对于他们的愿望或期望太慢时，人们会如何反应；即，当人们的时间目标在相互依赖的环境中受阻时，他们如何应对？ 研究人员认为，在延迟时间保持不变的情况下，人们耐心或不耐烦地经历这种延迟的程度会存在差异，而这种差异很重要。 如果社交生活涉及一系列的延迟和互动，那么每次延迟通常都伴随着随后的社交互动。 人们对给定延迟的反应会影响随后的互动。 总体而言，患者对延误的反应比不耐烦的反应会带来更好的人际结果。 因此，我们的目标是更好地理解社交延迟背景下耐心和不耐心反应的本质；也就是说，它们的结构是什么，它们的前因是什么，它们的影响是什么？ 在资助期间，研究者将进行试点研究，然后准备一份大型的、多年期的资助提案，以支持未来该研究领域。 POWRE 奖特别适合她，因为她还有两年的时间进行终身教职评估。 目前，芝加哥大学研究生商学院的终身教授中女性比例不到 10%。 这也是合适的，因为调查员在几次充满挑战的人生转变中一直在追求她的职业目标。 该奖项将在她的研究和专业发展的关键时刻提供及时的资助。