Deadlines Increase Procrastination

Andy Hab
2 min readNov 15, 2021

What! I’d get nothing done without deadlines!
Ditto, though I can be very productive, I have a natural tendency to procrastinate. In fact it is one of my natural talents!

So what are these researchers saying?
Knowles et al. at the University of Chicago in a study just published looked at how different length deadlines, and no deadlines, impacted task completion.

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Andy Hab

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