Reviewed by Psychology Today Staff Everyone puts things off sometimes, but procrastinators chronically avoid difficult tasks and may deliberately look for distractions. Procrastination tends to reflect a person’s struggles withself-control. For habitual procrastinators, who represent approximately 20 percent...
The article focuses on the psychology behind procrastination, a form of self-sabotage, that is defined as the gap between intention and action. People who procrastinate delay taking action longer than they...
I talked to two of the world's leading experts on procrastination: Joseph Ferrari, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology at De Paul University in Chicago, and Timothy Pychyl, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Neither one is a procrastinator,...
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"Procrastination is not a time-management problem, it's an emotion-management problem," says Tim Pychyl, an associate professor of psychology at Carleton University and blogger at Psychology Today, who spoke to me about the mounting evidence connecting procrastination to mood. "I get emails from ...
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Answering these questions is important, because in order to overcome procrastination, it helps to understand what causes it in the first place. As such, in the following article you will learn more about the psychology and causes of procrastination (i.e., itsetiology), as determined based onde...
Psychologist Susan Krauss Whitbourne,Psychology Todaycontributor and author ofThe Search for Fulfillment, suggests that challenging your faulty beliefs is important.3 If you are afraid of success because you secretly believe that you don't deserve it, it is important to realize that your self-ha...