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SUMMARY:Richard L. Solomon Distinguished Lecture: Edward Wasserman
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DESCRIPTION:<span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>PRECRASTINATION, ANTICIPATION, AND SIGNALIZATION: IMPLICATIONS FOR ADAPTIVE ACTION</strong><br />
EDWARD WASSERMAN (UNIVERSITY OF IOWA)<br />
CHAIR: DAVE KEARNS<br />
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Procrastination is a familiar and widely discussed proclivity: postponing tasks that can be done earlier. Precrastination is a lesser known and explored tendency: completing tasks quickly just to get them done sooner. Recent research suggests that precrastination may represent an important penchant that can be observed in both people and animals. My lecture reviews evidence concerned with precrastination and connects that evidence with a long history of interest in anticipatory learning, distance reception, and brain evolution. Discussion unfolds to encompass several related topics including impulsivity, planning, and self-control. Precrastination may be a new term in the psychological lexicon, but it may be a predisposition with an extended evolutionary history. Placing precrastination within the general rubric of anticipatory action may yield important insights into both adaptive and maladaptive behavior.<br />
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J. Bruce Overmier (University of Minnesota) was intially scheduled to deliver this named lecture but was unable to attend due to the COVID-altered universe. Bruce has generously provided EPA with the lecture slides he would have presented; they are available in this session as a bonus handout. </span>
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