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Procrastination is the action of unnecessarily and voluntarily delaying or postponing something despite knowing that there will be negative consequences for doing so.

The time-saving bias describes the tendency of people to misestimate the time that could be saved (or lost) when increasing (or decreasing) speed.

Temporal discounting (or hyperbolic discounting) is the tendency for people to have a stronger preference for more immediate payoffs relative to later payoffs.

Rosy retrospection is the psychological phenomenon of people sometimes judging the past disproportionately more positively than they judge the present.

The telescoping effect is a temporal displacement of an event whereby people perceive recent events as being more remote than they are and distant events as being more recent than they are.

Overvaluing immediate rewards.

Preferring smaller, sooner rewards over larger, later ones.

The planning fallacy is a phenomenon in which predictions about how much time will be needed to complete a future task display an optimism bias and underestimate the time needed.