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The Multi-Faces of Procrastination (2010)
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@MISC{Calabria10themulti-faces,
author = {Università Della Calabria and Nazaria Solferino and Nazaria Solferino},
title = {The Multi-Faces of Procrastination},
year = {2010}
}
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Abstract
Often people procrastinate unpleasant tasks for immediate gratification in doing noth-ing today. Therefore many scholars have been engaged in designing incentive schemes to avoid it. We think the process is very complicated and many features need to be analyzed, as the subjective evaluations of succeeding and rewards. Moreover, sometime people pro-crastinate because they feel insecure, investing to improve their performance hoping in a better result in the long run. This process can be dangerous, producing as result that we call “the curse of perfectionism”. Nevertheless procrastination may also have positive consequences if people spend their time in alternative activities, also useful for other ex post best rewarded tasks. We call this case as “productive procrastination”. In this paper we explore all these possibilities and underline conditions for they happen. We also discuss our results according to the difference between naive and sophisticated subjects.
Keyphrases
long run many feature incentive scheme noth-ing today many scholar alternative activity subjective evaluation sophisticated subject immediate gratification nevertheless procrastination sometime people underline condition performance hoping ex post productive procrastination positive consequence unpleasant task
