300 million years of pre-crastination

Do you delay things by procrastinating or are you eager to get things out of the way? If you like to complete tasks before they are due, then you are "pre-crastinating". This behavioral tendency to "get things out of the way" seems to have been around for a very long time: Pigeons tell us that pre-crastination may have a history of 300 million years or more.

Source: Psychonomic Society News - November 6, 2014 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news