The Study of Procrastination. The experimental approach to the psychology of personality has generated various approaches to the study of procrastination, as this issue is of some importance to several of the more applied bodies of social scientific knowledge. It will be noticed that the works referred to are rather plain in their concern for how procrastination originates within a person's repertoire of behaviors and how it 'operates', or continues to an extent whereby it may become a syndrome as opposed to a simple lack of action in achieving goals. This review is submitted in its critical spirit and with the inclusion of several twists of irony which are hoped to impart an idea of the limited philosophical awareness of much experimental psychology. It is in such areas as the study of procrastination that the researcher tends to be brought nearer to issues of human irrationality, and to the limitations of current approaches that belong to the mainstream in an often unspoken aim of Perfectibility. 12 pgs. 13 f/c. 17b. Pages: 12 Bibliography: 17 source(s) listed Filename: 1983 Study of Procrastination.doc Price: 107.40

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