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Impulsiveness Task's Reward Delay Expectancy Major Components Procrastination

Text Expectancy, value, delay, and impulsiveness are the four major components of procrastination. , a leading researcher on procrastination, explains:

Decrease the certainty or the size of a task's reward - its expectancy or its value - and you are unlikely to pursue its completion with any vigor. Increase the delay for the task's reward and our susceptibility to delay - impulsiveness - and motivation also dips.

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