The devil take the hindmost: an investigation of reducing delay discounting of negativity

Procrastination: An irrational choice of delaying work in high priority, so as to avoid unpleasantness (i.e., task aversiveness, Ferrari, Johnson, & McCown, 1995)involved in the task• Delay Gratification of Rewards: Subjective reward value decreases as a function of delay (Mazur, 1987)• Episodic Future Thinking’s Effect on Delay Gratification: Reducing delay discounting rates of rewards (Peters & Büchel, 2010) Link to abstract: http://dl4.globalstf.org/?wpsc-product=devil-takes-the-hindmost-an-investigation-of-reducing-delay-discounting-of-negativity