Structured Nonprocrastination: Scaffolding Efforts to Resist the Temptation to Reconstrue Unwarranted Delay

Procrastination, Health, and Well-Being

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 43-63

  Anderson, Joel H ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attention; Culpability; Extended will; Mens rea; Motivation; Neutralization theory; Scaffolding; Self appraisal; Self deception; Self licensing; Structured procrastination; Unwarranted delay

Indexed keywords

EID: 85013324808     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-802862-9.00003-7     Document Type: Chapter

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