While risk research focuses on actions that put people at risk, this paper introduces the concept of “passive risk”— risk brought on or magnified by inaction. We developed a scale measuring personal tendency for passive risk taking (PRT), validated it using a 150 undergraduate student sample, and obtained three factors indicating separate domains of passive risk taking: risk involving resources...

Considerable research in the technology adoption and use literature has focused on two user traits, i.e., computer playfulness and personal innovativeness with IT, and how they lead to various positive adoption and usage outcomes. However, little work to date has empirically investigated the possibility that these traits may also lead to undesirable usage outcomes. Building on recent psychology...

procrastination is a widespread phenomenon that has been associated with the most of cognitive, emotional, and motivational factors, about which a clear and integrated picture is still lacking, though. the aim of this study was to use primary established psychological procrastination-related factors in the base of ellis cognitive emotional behavioral approach to examine whether reliable subgrou...

This study investigated the relation between dilatory behaviors and performance in students whom we randomly assigned to either an online or a traditional, lecture introductory psychology class. Both sections had full access to a class Web site. There were no reliable differences between the 2 sections of the class on the measures of procrastination, exam performance, or attitudes toward the cl...

Academic procrastination is one of the many obstacles in student learning process. The negative impact that students can become individuals who are always looking for excuses when doing school assignments they don't like. This study used a descriptive method, non-probability sampling was carried out convenience, consisting 30 SMA class XI People's College 2. From results development instrument ...

In this paper we present the procrastination approach to the treatment of ambiguity, particularly in the context of natural language interfaces. In this approach, we try not to notice ambiguity unless we have the knowledge to resolve it available. In order to support this approach, we have developed a collection of structures that describe sets of possible interpretations efficiently. We have i...