Comments on: Procrastination Research Group

Procrastination Research Group

staggernation — Sat, 15 Nov 2003 19:49:44 -0800

I've been meaning to post this for the longest time.

By: staggernation

staggernation — Sat, 15 Nov 2003 19:54:26 -0800

[In case you don't want to follow a link blindly, it's the "Procrastination Research Group" at the Carleton University psych department.]

By: wendell

wendell — Sat, 15 Nov 2003 20:07:16 -0800

Got it.

By: yhbc

yhbc — Sat, 15 Nov 2003 20:28:37 -0800

* clicks on link * * laughs until he chokes * * waits a few weeks before adding a substantive comment *

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Sat, 15 Nov 2003 21:02:39 -0800

I'll check it out later.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Sat, 15 Nov 2003 21:09:34 -0800

huh? wuzzuh? *thunk*

By: anastasiav

anastasiav — Sat, 15 Nov 2003 21:18:33 -0800

Brilliant.

By: MiguelCardoso

MiguelCardoso — Sat, 15 Nov 2003 21:46:17 -0800

Is it OK if I get around to thanking you for this post tomorrow or sometime later, staggernation? :)

By: ZachsMind

ZachsMind — Sat, 15 Nov 2003 23:06:43 -0800

I was gonna use those very words "I'll check it out later" but I see now that Crash has already done it so I don't have to. That's what I get, for putting off responding to this thread. Early bird gets the worm and all that. Ah well. I'd think of something funnier to say but maybe later. I'm too busy putting off going to sleep.

By: Guy Smiley

Guy Smiley — Sat, 15 Nov 2003 23:20:54 -0800

I was thinking about posting something pretty much like what Zach posted. I had the beginnings of a rough outline and everything...

By: WolfDaddy

WolfDaddy — Sat, 15 Nov 2003 23:26:31 -0800

...but I am le tired.

By: ZachsMind

ZachsMind — Sat, 15 Nov 2003 23:38:36 -0800

Okay. These two procrastinators walk into a bar... no wait that's not the joke... There were these two procrastinators see? And they were ...they were thinking about walking into a bar. And one of them opens his mouth like he was gonna say somethin, right? And then he shuts his mouth and looks down at his feet. And the other procrastinator says, "were you gonna say somethin'?" and the first procrastinator says to the second procrastinator, "why didn't our moms ever give us names?" And the other procrastinator says, "she's still thinkin' about it." And then... oh forget it.

By: Samizdata

Samizdata — Sat, 15 Nov 2003 23:52:10 -0800

But, but, the page made it past the "Under Construction" phase...

By: bedhead

bedhead — Sat, 15 Nov 2003 23:53:01 -0800

Double you tee eff. Also, I really wanted to post something like this ages ago, but you know, stuff happens. It's not because I procrastinate like crazy or anything. Not at all.

By: brookedel

brookedel — Sun, 16 Nov 2003 02:46:04 -0800

This approach has been used by Ferrari and his colleagues (e.g., Ferrari et al.,1995) who have developed an approach to the treatment of academic procrastination known as "Doing It Now." Well, that's one idea, anyway.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Sun, 16 Nov 2003 07:23:10 -0800

sounds awful fraught with, like, effort and stuff.

By: troutfishing

troutfishing — Sun, 16 Nov 2003 07:33:52 -0800

"According to Roy Baumeister, a psychology professor at Cleveland's Case Western Reserve University, willpower is like a muscle -- it gets tired, same as a bicep. If you exercise your willpower too much, it becomes exhausted, and is less able to prevent your attention from wandering. In an exercise designed to test this theory, Baumeister placed a group in a room with a plate of chocolate chip cookies, and told them not to eat the treats. Another group was placed in a similar room and told they were allowed to eat the cookies. Both groups were later asked to conduct a tedious exercise that simulated work. The group that had already used their willpower plugged away at the tedious exercise only half as long as the group that hadn't previously disciplined themselves. From this, Baumeister concluded that willpower weakens as it is exercised...." Ah, science.....

By: staggernation

staggernation — Sun, 16 Nov 2003 08:14:09 -0800

That's an interesting conclusion. I would have concluded that cookies give you energy.

By: palancik

palancik — Sun, 16 Nov 2003 10:05:08 -0800

This page takes for-ev-er to load . . .

By: billsaysthis

billsaysthis — Sun, 16 Nov 2003 10:12:29 -0800

Cookies? Stagger, you got some cookies?

By: ilsa

ilsa — Sun, 16 Nov 2003 10:22:19 -0800

Hehe, it even procrastinates about loading.

By: troutfishing

troutfishing — Sun, 16 Nov 2003 10:22:27 -0800

staggernation - that's what came to my mind.

By: orange swan

orange swan — Sun, 16 Nov 2003 10:34:27 -0800

I'm glad to hear about that procrastination research about cookies. From now on I will go ahead an eat cookies, saving my will power for more important things, like, uh, the extra running I'm going to have to do to work off the cookies.

By: denbot

denbot — Sun, 16 Nov 2003 21:08:00 -0800

Amusing, considering that Carleton is considered the 'safe' university to apply to in Ontario if your marks might not get you in where you'd like to go. Otherwise known as "Last-Chance U". No offense, Carleton people. I've heard the bars are good. :)