Research Highlights – June 2018

In a series of eight studies, both in the lab and in real life, researchers at Ohio State University’s Fisher College of Business. found that free time seems shorter to people when it comes before a task or appointment on their calendar and therefore people get less done during these intervals

The researcher published in the Journal of Consumer Research says, “We seem to take a mental tax out of our time right before an appointment. We figure something might come up, we might need some extra time, even when there’s no need to do that. .....