precrastination

• pre-crastination

Blend of pre- +‎ procrastination, q.v.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɹiːˌkɹæstɪˈneɪʃə̆n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɹiːˌkɹæs.tɪˈneɪ.ʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

precrastination (usually uncountable, plural precrastinations)

1. (psychology) The completion of a task too quickly or too early for the optimal outcome; the compulsion to act in this way.
   • 2017, David A. Rosenbaum, Knowing Hands: The Cognitive Psychology of Manual Control, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 234:

     My colleagues and I called this tendency “precrastination.” The term was meant to connote the opposite of procrastination, the tendency to put off until later what you can do right away. Pre-crastination is the tendency to do too soon what might be better done later.

   • 2017, David A. Rosenbaum, Knowing Hands: The Cognitive Psychology of Manual Control, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 234:

     Lanyun Gong and Cory Potts, the two students with whom I did this work, and I conducted a number of experiments to check our precrastination interpretation.

   • 2017, Wasif Haq, Interpreting Procrastination; Key to Success, Happiness and Wellness‎, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN, page 81:

     It is foreseeable that if we do not enjoy the process involved in completing a task, we will choose procrastination or precrastination to minimize the time we need to spend to do a task.

   • 2018, Rachel VonderHaar, “Pre-Crastination Effects in a Prospective Memory Task”, in Illinois State University Research Symposium, volume 155:

     The precrastination effect is the finding that individuals complete actions earlier to "get it out of the way" (Rosenbaum, Gong, & Potts, 2014). In the current study, we tested precrastination with a prospective memory (PM) paradigm to determine if this phenomenon generalizes to PM tasks that can be completed at a time chosen by the participant.

• precrastinate, procrastination, procrastinate