In psychology and in cognitive neuroscience, patience is studied as a decision-making problem, involving the choice of either a small reward in the short-term, versus a more valuable reward in the long-term.
在进化心理学和认知神经科学里，耐心作为决策问题来研究，这个决策问题涉及到，选择在短期内能得到的小奖励，还是在很长时间后才能得到的更有价值的奖励。