Your Eyes Are the Key to Your Soul -- Well, Your Patience and Impulsiveness, Anyway
Quick. How fast did you read this sentence? If it was less than a millisecond, you may be one of those -- like me -- who makes impulsive decisions. Turns out, thanks to a new study , it's been found that the quicker you move your eyes, the less patient you are, according to newswise.com. " Using a simple study of eye movements, Johns Hopkins scientists report evidence that people who are less patient tend to move their eyes with greater speed," the Web site reports. The findings, the researchers say, suggest that the weight people give to the passage of time may be a trait "consistently used throughout their brains, affecting the speed with which they make movements, as well as the way they make certain decisions" Researchers set out to find why some people are willing to wait and others aren’t. I don't know about you but the second I see a line forming at a store, I want to get in it, even sometimes before I've made all the purchases I came for...