Commentary: Pre-crastination: hastening subgoal completion at the expense of extra physical effort

Frontiers in Psychology

Michael Richter¹ 

关键词: pre-crastination;    effort;    law of least effort;    choice;    reward;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01269

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Rosenbaum et al. (2014) announced in a recent Psychological Science paper the discovery of a new psychological phenomenon. They presented nine studies on task choice in a bucket carrying task and claimed that the results of these studies provide evidence for pre-crastination, the tendency to complete (sub)tasks as soon as possible, even if this comes with the expense of additional physical effort. In this commentary, I discuss whether the findings of Rosenbaum and colleagues indeed reveal a new, surprising phenomenon or are old wine in new skins.

【 授权许可】

CC BY