ArticlePsychological research2023
Carrying groceries: More items in early trips than in later trips or the reverse? Implications for pre-crastination.
Article in Psychological research, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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6 citing papers in PubMed.
- The continuous dynamics of planning and acting in a virtually embodied task.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Pre-crastination and path planning: Evidence for cognitive frontloading, a new sibling for cognitive offloading.Psychological research · 2025Article
- The translation and validation of the procrastination and precrastination traits scale in the modern Arabic Language.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The development and validation of a one-off scale to measure procrastination and precrastination traits in young adults.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- The dark side of precrastination: exploring the psychological burdens of being too early.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Physical effort precrastination determines preference in an isometric task.Journal of neurophysiology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Returning home from the grocery store with a car full of groceries requires decisions about how many bags to carry when. If the decisions exemplify procrastination, people should carry more bags per trip in late trips than in early trips (putting the hard work off until later), but if the decisions exemplify the recently discovered phenomenon of pre-crastination (Rosenbaum et al. in Psychol Sci 25: 1487-1496, 2014), people should carry more bags per trip in early trips than in late trips (doing the hard work early). To distinguish between these possibilities, we asked university students to carry 5 or 11 dodgeballs from one bin to another 4, 8, 12, or 16 feet away in as many trips as they wished. A random half of the subjects did the tasks with an additional requirement to memorize and then recall 7 digits after carrying all the balls from the home to the target bin. Consistent with pre-crastination, participants carried the most balls per trip in early trips, and consistent with the hypothesis that pre-crastination relates to memory load, the number of balls carried per trip was affected by the presence of a memory load. The results add to the growing evidence for the generality of pre-crastination.
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