Vaccination is a pressing public health issue. We hypothesize that impatience (discounting future benefits of current actions) leads to lower vaccination rates and worse attitudes toward vaccines. In preregistered individual-level Study 1 ( N = 2,614), we document positive quantitatively small association (standardized coefficient 0.06) between patience 2 76), national-level accounts for 21% th...

Abstract Based on panel data around 5500 German households, this article analyzes whether the experience of financial losses due to Corona pandemic has affected three kinds personal traits and preferences: willingness take risks, patience, locus control (LOC). Our empirical results indicate that patience LOC remain unchanged by pandemic‐related losses, whereas we find a negative effect severe r...