Preventive health behaviors involve costs and benefits
that occur at different points in time. Consequently,
it is reasonable to expect that preferences
for timing of events would be related to likelihood
of performing preventive behaviors. Specifically, we
predicted that people with future-oriented time
preferences would be more likely to accept a free
influenza vaccination and that this relationship
would be especially strong for those who viewed the
benefits of the vaccine as delayed relative to the
costs