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Summary: New research delves into how valence weighting bias—people’s tendency to prioritize negative or positive attitudes—plays a crucial role in procrastination. By studying individuals’ responses to tasks like tax filing and academic research participation, the researchers found a strong link between a negative-leaning attitude and the tendency to delay tasks.

Additionally, interventions that balanced participants’ valence weighting bias showed promise in reducing procrastination, suggesting that this psychological bias might be a key target for improving decision-making and task completion. This insight opens new avenues for addressing procrastination by adjusting how individuals weigh positive and negative signals when faced with decisions.

Light moves objects — and this motion can now be measured accurately without extreme cooling.

The way we take notes may influence how we remember.

The geometry of life pdf.

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Ford could be developing its own 800-volt multi-voltage EV charging solution, according to an almost four-year-old patent made public today.

Ever since these models appeared, researchers and philosophers have debated whether they are complex ‘stochastic parrots’ or whether they are indeed capable of understanding and will eventually be smarter than us.

Panprotopsychism instantiated.

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