A pesky “motivation brake” may control when we can be bothered to do something, and when we’d rather put it off.

You know that assignment, message or email you keep avoiding—the one that lingers in the back of your mind even as you scroll, tidy or "just check one more thing"? New research from UC Santa Barbara ...

To bump up the noise-blocking abilities of The Isolator, the makers included an air space inside the helmet which reportedly ...

Ironically, here’s a video about the science of procrastination that you can watch to avoid doing some other task. But it’s not quite the singularity that it could be, because it also gives you some ...

Procrastination silently sabotages your opportunities to learn to operate at higher levels of effectiveness. Preventing learning procrastination may be among your most important self-help improvement ...

Self-sabotaging actions like procrastination and perfectionism, though seemingly destructive, are actually survival instincts, according to psychologist Dr. Charlie Heriot-Maitland. His book reveals ...

(via Big Think) “Because of the efficiency worship that we have developed in our industrial age, we are now seeing procrastination as a character flaw rather than what it is, a signal that is worth ...

Guest Post by Dan Gordon, Ph.D. The study of history offers two competing outlooks on human nature. On the one hand, the past reveals continuity in our psychological makeup. People thousands of years ...