- This talk proposes "culpably unwarranted delay" as a unifying definition that addresses challenges researchers face studying procrastination across developmental stages, clinical populations, and cultural contexts.
- The definition maintains procrastination's agent-centered character through three criteria: voluntary delay, insufficient warrant, and foreseeable negative consequences.
- This approach creates space for diverse forms of procrastination while providing principled distinctions from strategic delay, pre-crastination, and other related phenomena.
- Most existing definitions require explicit prior intentions, conscious awareness of delay, or specific emotional states like guilt or anxiety.
- These requirements exclude important cases like decisional procrastination, second-order procrastinati