Eight clusters capture a variety of styles of work allocation by students in a real-world task (P. Zhang & Ma, 2023). Plots show the cumulative number of hours of work completed by each week of the semester. The threshold of 14 units (7 hours) is marked in red. Credit: Sahiti et al. (2024) Procrastination, the deliberate but detrimental deferring of tasks, has many forms. Sahiti Chebolu of the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics has used a precise mathematical framework to understand its different patterns and their underlying reasons. Her Read More