Most of us have experienced it: a deadline approaches, the task is perfectly doable, yet instead of starting, we suddenly ...

All of us experience procrastination once in a while. Whether it's scrolling the phone when you should be working on your ...

You look at the clock: It's 4:30 P.M. Your workday is nearly over, but your to-do list is nowhere near done. You look at it in horror as you realize there are items that have been on it for weeks, but ...

Most of us have had the experience of getting home at the end of a long day at work, taking care of the chores, being with family, and then realizing it is time for sleep. But what if you just don’t ...

Every time you sit at your desk to get things done, you are slowed down by the demon called procrastination. It is a ...

In his new book, Wait: The Art and Science of Delay, Frank Partnoy claims that when faced with a decision, we should assess how long we have to make it, and then wait until the last possible moment to ...

Procrastination, the deliberate but detrimental deferring of tasks, has many forms. Sahiti Chebolu of the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics uses a precise mathematical framework to ...

Revenge bedtime procrastination is when someone intentionally puts off sleep to reclaim some personal time. Experts weigh in on why parents do it and how to stop. Medically reviewed by Jodi A. Mindell ...

Most productivity apps quietly log your bad habits without actually changing them. I focus here on tools that interrupt ...

It’s 11 p.m. on a Sunday night. You are hunched over your desk staring into the computer screen, and there it is: an assignment due at 11:59. You look at the clock — it just turned 11:01. You had all ...

Self-harming and self-sabotaging behaviors, from skin picking to ghosting people, all stem from evolutionary survival ...

Revenge Bedtime Procrastination is a psychological response to a lack of daytime autonomy. Chronic sleep delay is linked to cardiovascular disease and impaired cognitive function. Adults typically ...