Procrastination, the tendency to unnecessarily delay or put off tasks even if this will have negative consequences, is a common behavior for many people. While occasionally delaying or putting off ...

Not taking active measures to rein in the self-sabotage during the formative years of early adulthood can have repercussions in people’s professional and personal lives almost two decades later, the ...

It's not uncommon to catch preschoolers dilly-dallying when they're supposed to be tidying or school-aged children putting off homework for more desirable tasks. But are these forms of procrastination ...

'Valence weight bias' is a psychological term that denotes a person's tendency to adapt to new circumstances by drawing more strongly from either positive or negative attitudes. An example of this is ...

In the modern world, the pursuit of a well-deserved break from the daily grind has led to a peculiar phenomenon known as sleep revenge procrastination. Coined by the National Sleep Foundation, this ...

“Procrastination is the feeling that says, ‘I’m stuck," Toyin Crandell says, as she brushes a handful of curls across her forehead. “Helplessness is what it is.” Indeed, procrastination is often ...

Why you keep putting things off—and what to do about it ...

Everybody procrastinates from time to time, and most of us are always trying to find ways to procrastinate less.

We define procrastination as not doing what needs to be done when we know we need to do it. But you already knew that, right? It feels to college students (and many of the rest of us) like a world of ...

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It’s 11 p.m. on a Sunday night. You are hunched over your desk staring into the computer screen, and there it is: an assignment due at 11:59. You look at the clock — it just turned 11:01. You had all ...