and an Assistant Teaching Professor position: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06659
A Developmental Psychology position as I posted earlier: bsky.app/profile/yuko...
16/ A view-only pdf: rdcu.be/dPMCV
Nature Reviews Psychology - Procrastination is often viewed as innocuous as long as deadlines are met but it is associated with negative life outcomes. In this Review, Mahy et al. bring together...
15/ Special shout-out to Lab Manager Adrien Ward and Research Assistant Sofia Garibay for creating initial sketches for the figure that shows up in the thumbnail image for the paper!
14/ Input welcome! Corresponding authors caitlin.mahy@brocku.ca, akira.miyake@colorado.edu. Thanks to colleagues who provided helpful feedback on earlier drafts: Nic Chevalier, Logan Fiorella, @dangustavson.bsky.social@michaeljkane.bsky.social, Katrin Klingsieck, and Frode Svartdal.
13/ We highlight @ucdavispsych.bsky.socialjournals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
A longstanding goal of psychology is to predict the things that people do and feel, but tools to accurately predict future behaviors and experiences remain elus...
12/ If we want students to procrastinate less, we may need to rethink our well-intentioned class policies, as @hannahrsnyder.bsky.socialtwitter.com/Hannah_R_Sny...
I've been seeing some posts from well-intentioned faculty about eliminating all deadlines in their classes. I study #ExecutiveFunction, #stress and #mentalhealth in college #students, and I'm here to tell you this will hurt the students you are trying to help. . . 1/buckle up
11/ @pritirshah.bsky.social's kids had teachers in grades 5/6 who scaffolded skills by assigning a small number of tasks and flexible time to do them, with a reward of joining a fun class activity if they were done by Friday. They built up to more flexible time and more complex assignments.
10/ So what can be done about student procrastination? Teachers can make learning environments less procrastination-friendly: break assignments down and implement regular deadlines. Teach procrastination-reduction strategies, let students practice them until they become habitual.