@article{33506392ef3243828793e317d57ab605,
title = "Sooner Rather Than Later: Precrastination Rather Than Procrastination",
abstract = "Putting things off as long as possible (procrastination) is a well-known tendency. Less well known is the tendency to attempt to get things done as soon as possible, even if that involves extra effort (precrastination). Since its discovery in 2014, precrastination has been demonstrated in humans and animals and has recently been revealed in an analogous tendency called the mere-urgency effect. Trying to get things done as soon as one can may reflect optimal foraging, but another less obvious factor may also contribute—reducing cognitive demands associated with having to remember what to do when. Individual differences may also play a role. Understanding precrastination will have important implications for explaining why hurrying happens as often as it does and may help reduce the chance that haste makes waste.",
keywords = "cognitive resources, foraging, hurrying, memory load, precrastination, procrastination, prospective memory",
author = "Rosenbaum, {David A.} and Fournier, {Lisa R.} and Shelly Levy-Tzedek and McBride, {Dawn M.} and Robert Rosenthal and Kyle Sauerberger and VonderHaar, {Rachel L.} and Wasserman, {Edward A.} and Zentall, {Thomas R.}",
note = "Funding Information: The workshop from which this article was adapted was supported by a University of California, Riverside (UCR) Teaming Workshop Grant. The work was also supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship and a UCR Committee on Research grant (to D. A. Rosenbaum) and by the Helmsley Charitable Trust Agricultural, Biological and Cognitive Robotic Initiative, the Marcus Endowment Fund at Ben-Gurion University, the Borten Family Foundation, the Promobilia Foundation, the Israeli Science Foundation (Grants 535/16 and 2166/16), and the European Union{\textquoteright}s Horizon 2020 Marie Sk{\l}odowska-Curie Grant 754340 (to S. Levy-Tzedek). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} The Author(s) 2019.",
year = "2019",
month = jun,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1177/0963721419833652",
language = "English",
volume = "28",
pages = "229--233",
journal = "Current Directions in Psychological Science",
issn = "0963-7214",
publisher = "SAGE Publications Inc.",
number = "3",
}