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Psychological Consequences Of Calling Obesity A Disease
NPR: I’m Michel Martin and this is TELL ME MORE from NPR News. I’d like to thank Celeste Headlee for sitting in for me while I was away. On the program today, we are focusing
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Delay That’s in Our DNA
The Wall Street Journal: If your first impulse is to put off reading this column, your parents may be the reason. But read it anyway, because impulsiveness and procrastination so often go hand in hand.
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Procrastinating? Blame Your Genes
Science Magazine: Are you supposed to be doing something else right now? If so, you may be able to blame your urge to avoid the task at hand in favor of more tempting distractions on
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Blame Your Parents for Your Procrastinating Ways
Inc.: The next time someone gets mad at you for putting things off, blame Mom and Dad. Procrastination is linked to genetics, according to a surprising new study published in the journal Psychological Science, and
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Procrastinating on those taxes? Blame your genes
Los Angeles Times: New research suggests the Internal Revenue Service should expand the list of acceptable explanations for procrastinators’ yearly extension requests and late tax filings. Two possibilities: “I was born this way” and “failure
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Procrastinators, you can blame it on genetics…tomorrow
PBS: Procrastination is in your genes, according to a study from researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder. “Everyone procrastinates at least sometimes,” explains psychological scientist and study author Daniel Gustavson in the journal
