Persuasive cross-cultural research on this will be tough to design because procrastination is tough to define and to measure.

What is procrastination? A cigarette break? What about students cleaning their bathroom as papers are due and exams loom? Would this be characterized as procrastinating on writing and study, or as reducing procrastination for otherwise deferred cleaning.

In the cross-cultural arena hard data is even more elusive.

Jonathan Kroner

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