Previous research has shown that negative attitudes towards immigrants and support for anti-immigrant parties are observed both among those experiencing relative deprivation and those experiencing relative gratification (so called v-curve). Whereas the effect of relative deprivation is intuitive, the effect of relative gratification is more difficult to explain. Why would economic prosperity pr...

This study examined the relationship among personal network characteristics, gratification-utilities and the frequency of use of three interactive communication technologies (landline telephone, email and instant messaging).A conceptual framework is presented, providing a rationale for three hypotheses predicting positive relationships between personal network characteristics (size, intimacy an...

Delaying gratification is the ability to resist immediate rewards for larger or more desirable delayed rewards, and is important to individual and societal success. Many factors involved in delaying gratification have been well established, but the role of time perception is not well understood. Given that individuals experience time differently, these differences may influence choices regardin...

Walter Mischel and colleagues carried out a series of experiments between 1968 and 1974 on the ability of four year-old children attending a nursery school to delay gratification. The experimental paradigm involved offering each child a choice between having a treat, such as a cookie or a marshmallow, immediately, versus receiving a larger treat (e.g., two cookies) after an unspecified delay. I...

this paper was aimed at clarifying the links between uses and gratification theory (ugt) and knowledge and information science in both traditional and modern contexts. uses and gratification conceptual model were also proposed both for library and information centers, and for interactive information retrieval systems. review and analysis of published resources were used as the methodology of th...

In this longitudinal study, the proportion of time preschoolers directed their attention away from rewarding stimuli during a delay-of-gratification task was positively associated with efficiency (greater speed without reduced accuracy) at responding to targets in a go/no-go task more than 10 years later. The overall findings suggest that preschoolers' ability to effectively direct their attent...

Obese (n = 20) and normal weight (n = 20) children (8-11 years) were compared using the delay of gratification paradigm. All children were asked to choose between an immediate reward or a larger delayed (one day) reward. Half the children were offered an edible incentive and half a non-edible incentive. Results showed that the obese choose immediate rewards more often than normals only when the...

We examined the neural basis of self-regulation in individuals from a cohort of preschoolers who performed the delay-of-gratification task 4 decades ago. Nearly 60 individuals, now in their mid-forties, were tested on "hot" and "cool" versions of a go/nogo task to assess whether delay of gratification in childhood predicts impulse control abilities and sensitivity to alluring cues (happy faces)...

This study explores the intergenerational transmission of time preferences and focuses on the question which specific aspects of mother’s time preference are related to her preschool child’s ability to delay gratification. We provide a new procedure for assessing the parameters of a “quasi-hyperbolic” discount function (Laibson, 1997) using two trade-off experiments. We apply the procedure to a...