The real reason you can’t start that important task has nothing to do with laziness and everything to do with how your brain ...

For many of us, procrastination comes with a lot of emotional baggage, says neuroscientist Anne-Laure Le Cunff, PhD. "We've been taught to associate procrastination with laziness and lack of willpower ...

Procrastination is best understood as an emotion-focused coping strategy. We use task avoidance to escape the negative emotions associated with a task (frustration, boredom, stress, anxiety). As ...

Most of us have experienced it: a deadline approaches, the task is perfectly doable, yet instead of starting, we suddenly feel compelled to tidy a drawer or reorganize the apps on our phone.

Let’s face it: Sometimes you want to hold off on tackling your responsibilities. Procrastination, while it’s often thought of as laziness or poor time-management skills, experts say it’s an emotional ...

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 ...

I think we can all agree that achieving a goal makes a person feel successful. I think we might all be in agreement that one compelling definition, an empirical definition, of success is achieving a ...

Annemieke Apergis-Schoute received funding from The Wellcome Trust for previous OCD research. Most of us have experienced it: a deadline approaches, the task is perfectly doable, yet instead of ...