In this paper we model a decision maker who must exert costly effort to complete single task by fixed deadline. Effort costs evolve stochastically in continuous time. The optimally waits until are less than given threshold, the solution an optimal stopping time problem. We derive for three cases: (1) exponential makers, (2) Naïve hyperbolic discounters and (3) sophisticated discounters. Absent ...

Why do people's impulse controls break down during emotional distress? Some theories propose that distress impairs one's motivation or one's ability to exert self-control, and some postulate self-destructive intentions arising from the moods. Contrary to those theories, Three experiments found that believing that one's bad mood was frozen (unchangeable) eliminated the tendency to eat fattening ...

We examine a new construct dealing with individuals’ tendency to elaborate on potential outcomes, that is, to generate and evaluate potential positive and negative consequences of their behaviors. We develop the elaboration on potential outcomes (EPO) scale and then investigate its relationships with conceptually related traits and its association with consumer behaviors such as exercise of sel...

This unethical behavior occurs because of the mindset each individual, if individual thinks everyone is cheating, then they will tend to cheat. study aims see effect procrastination and goal orientation on academic dishonesty in post-graduate moderated by self-efficacy. The scale used for data collection Bashir & Bala, self-efficacy Schwarzer Jerusalem, Chun Chu Choi, Button et al. sampling...

Procrastination is an increasingly prevalent phenomenon. Although research suggests smartphones might be involved, little known about the momentary association between different patterns of smartphone use and procrastination. In a preregistered study, 221 students ( M age = 20, 55% female) self-reported procrastination five times day for 30 days (i.e., experience sampling method) while their wa...

Designing a Native Happiness Education Package and Examining its Effectiveness on Grit, Hope, Self-Control, Resilience Academic Procrastination in High School Students

This paper adopts the Gul and Pensendorfer self-control utility model to analyze an agent’s option exercise decision under uncertainty over an infinite horizon. The agent decides whether and when to do an irreversible activity. He is tempted by immediate gratification and suffers from self-control problems. The cost of self-control lowers the benefit from continuation or stopping and may erode ...

PURPOSE Practicing physicians have a societal obligation to maintain their competence. Unfortunately, the self-regulated learning skills likely required for lifelong learning are not explicitly addressed in most medical schools. The authors examined how medical students' perceptions of the learning environment relate to their self-regulated learning behaviors. They also explored how students' p...

Procrastination refers to the practice of putting off impending tasks due to the habitual carelessness or laziness. The understanding of procrastination plays an important role in educational psychology, which can help track and evaluate the comprehensive quality of students. However, traditional methods for procrastination analysis largely rely on the knowledge and experiences from domain expe...