Procrastination, Deadlines, and Performance: Self-Control by Precommitment

By Dan Ariely, Klaus Wertenbroch. Psychology Science, 2002

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, General Decision Sciences

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Self-Regulation Through Goal Setting (2011, positive): “Ariely and Wertenbroch (2002) study the effects of deadlines on procrastination.”
Situational Strategies for Self-Control (2016, neutral): “The array of self-control strategies that W. Mischel (2014) and others (Ariely & Wertenbroch, 2002; Carlson & Beck, 2009; W. Mischel & Ayduk, 2004; Perry, Hechter, Menec, & Weinberg, 1993; Poston & Foreyt, 2000; Rachlin, 2000; Schelling, 1978; Wansink, 2007) have described is dizzying in both…”
Self-control, revealed preference and consumption choice (2004, positive): “Ariely and Wertenbroch (2002) let students choose whether to impose deadlines for class assignments and find that many students choose to impose deadlines that constrain their future choices.”
Modeling the Psychology of Consumer and Firm Behavior with Behavioral Economics (2006, background): “…sophisticate )1ˆ( = ββ , who is fully aware of her time-inconsistency and make decisions that rationally anticipate these problems.17 The sophisticate will seek external self-control devices to commit herself to acting patiently in the future (Ariely and Wertenbroch 2002), but the naïf will not.”
Avoiding procrastination through time management: an experimental intervention study (2014, background): “Furthermore, accelerated learning before a deadline has been found less successful than studying at an even pace (Ariely and Wertenbroch 2002; Perrin et al. 2011).”
TESTING ENFORCEMENT STRATEGIES IN THE FIELD: THREAT, MORAL APPEAL AND SOCIAL INFORMATION (2013, background): “Moreover, mailings might serve as a ‘nudge’ (Thaler and Sunstein, 2008), remind cheaters of their legal duty and – by stating a response deadline of 14 days – reduce procrastination (Ariely and Wertenbroch, 2002).”
Procrastination: Associations with achievement goal orientation and learning strategies (2007, background): “This suggests that disorganization may be more closely related to not following-up on plans earlier formulated rather than to the absence of a plan in the first place ( Ariely & Wertenbroch, 2002; van Eerde, 2000).”
INCREASING SAVING BEHAVIOR THROUGH AGE-PROGRESSED RENDERINGS OF THE FUTURE SELF (2011, positive): “…has demonstrated that people make attributions about the future self in the same manner as they do for others, by attributing the future self’s behavior to dispositional factors rather than situational ones (Pronin and Ross 2006; Wakslak et al. 2008), and make decisions for the future self using…”
Using Goals to Motivate College Students: Theory and Evidence From Field Experiments (2020, positive): “…can use commitment devices such as restricted-access savings accounts to self-regulate their behavior (e.g., Wertenbroch, 1998; Ariely & Wertenbroch, 2002; Thaler & Benartzi, 2004; Ashraf et al., 2006; DellaVigna & Malmendier, 2006; Augenblick, Niederle, & Sprenger, 2015; Kaur, Kremer,…”