Don't Delay

Understanding procrastination and how to achieve our goals.

by Timothy A. Pychyl

Regulating Your Emotions

By Timothy A. Pychyl, Ph.D. on August 10, 2009 in Don't Delay

What can we learn from research on self-regulation that might help us with our emotion regulation? Implementation intentions can be used strategically to influence what emotions we might experience. This interests me because regulating emotions successfully can foster more effective self-regulation and less procrastination. Read More

Motivation as cognition and therapy

Submitted by idit on August 12, 2009 - 11:35am.

Thanks for an interesting review of a beautiful paper-

Accept for the about, this research is interesting:(1)it shows us one possible combination/integration (maybe out of many-?) between automatic and strategic processes and (2)it demonstrates the effect of one form of motivation as cognition (e.g., implementation intentions) on anxiety reduction. This path is pretty new as many treatment protocols emphasize what they call "cognition" (e.g., cognitive distortion)and ignore the important role of motivation on the process of change.

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Timothy A. Pychyl, Ph.D., is an associate professor of psychology at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, where he specializes in the study of procrastination.

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