Publication details
Motivated regulatory failure? The tricky connections between procrastination, delay, aversion, and reactance
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| Year of publication | 2013 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | The study explores the effects of psychological reactance and task aversiveness on subjective trait and situational academic procrastination and delay. It is based on a model of "motivated regulatory failure" which states that people are motivated to behaviorally disrupt any regulatory structure if it threatens their important freedoms of choice. |