An 18-year-long study published in Journal of Personality & Social Psychology finds that people tend to procrastinate less as ...

DARIEN, IL – A new study to be presented at the SLEEP 2025 annual meeting found that bedtime procrastination in young adults is associated with specific personality traits, including depressive ...

Procrastination is often described as a failure of emotional regulation. There’s more than that going on when someone avoids ...

Procrastination rarely gets the respect that it deserves. When psychologists address procastinating at all, it is often with a touch of tongue-in-cheek humour. While everybody procrastinates at some ...

Putting off a burdensome task may seem like a universal trait, but new research suggests that people whose negative attitudes tend to dictate their behavior in a range of situations are more likely to ...

The original pure procrastination scale was developed in a Canadian study in 2010, with the Japanese version following in 2022. Procrastination can be roughly defined as voluntarily putting off an ...

I’ll be honest: When I’m facing a difficult work task that requires real focus and deep concentration, you’ll find me scrolling through Instagram, reading a ...

Let’s be honest. You’re probably reading this article while avoiding something else you should be doing right now. Don’t worry—the irony isn’t lost on me. An article about procrastination becoming yet ...

It seems like there’s never a dull moment these days. From managing our social calendar to juggling responsibilities at home and work, it might be hard to focus on knocking off things on your to-do ...

It is sometimes difficult to recognize the exact moment when your harmless habit of procrastination mutates into a full-blown compulsion. If you have been asking yourself the following questions ...