eterrent efficacy of a threatened punishment: its swiftness, its certainty, and its severity.
Interestingly, these correspond to delay, expectancy and value in the procrastination equation. It’s interesting to see “negative” values used to form a kind of anti-motivation.
I hadn’t noticed that. That’s a pretty shrewd connection! Come to think of it, the “excessive discounting”/”excessive present-orientation” Kleiman mentions is suspiciously similar to the procrastination equation’s remaining term, impulsiveness.
I wonder whether criminologists discovered this independently of psychologists & neuroscientists? Might be an example of two parts of academia converging on the same answer from different directions.
Interestingly, these correspond to delay, expectancy and value in the procrastination equation. It’s interesting to see “negative” values used to form a kind of anti-motivation.
Awesome, this is worth its own post IMO.
I hadn’t noticed that. That’s a pretty shrewd connection! Come to think of it, the “excessive discounting”/”excessive present-orientation” Kleiman mentions is suspiciously similar to the procrastination equation’s remaining term, impulsiveness.
I wonder whether criminologists discovered this independently of psychologists & neuroscientists? Might be an example of two parts of academia converging on the same answer from different directions.