Journal article
Pre-crastination in the pigeon
Psychonomic bulletin & review, Vol.22(4), pp.1130-1134
08/2015
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-014-0758-3
PMID: 25361822
Abstract
Procrastination is the tendency to delay initiating or completing tasks. Rosenbaum et al. (Psychological Science, May 8, 2014) recently documented the opposite of procrastination: pre-crastination, the tendency to begin or to finish tasks as soon as possible. We devised a simple two-alternative forced-choice task, in which pigeons could choose to switch response location either sooner or later in a sequence of actions eventuating in food reward. Even though there was no economic advantage for doing so, pigeons chose to switch response location sooner rather than later in the sequence, showing pre-crastination to be quite general. Pre-crastination thus joins other anticipatory learning phenomena in challenging rational or optimal accounts of behavioral adaptation.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Pre-crastination in the pigeon
- Creators
- Edward A Wasserman - Department of Psychology, The University of Iowa, E11 Seashore Hall, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USA, ed-wasserman@uiowa.eduStephen J Brzykcy
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Psychonomic bulletin & review, Vol.22(4), pp.1130-1134
- Publisher
- United States
- DOI
- 10.3758/s13423-014-0758-3
- PMID
- 25361822
- ISSN
- 1069-9384
- eISSN
- 1531-5320
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 08/2015
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984070432702771
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