There's a lot of myths out there about why people procrastinate. The common wisdom is that, you know, teach somebody to manage their time better and they're stopped procrastinating or give them better self-control. So what we when we look at procrastination then in terms of emotion regulation, one way to think about is that we're not avoiding the task per se. What we're avoiding is a negative emotions associated with that task. And so procrastination becomes a way to cope with those negative moods.

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