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Modulating task outcome value to mitigate real-world procrastination via noninvasive brain stimulation
Zhiyi Chen, Zhilin Ren, Wei Li, ZhenZhen Huo, ZhuangZheng Wang, Ye Liu, Bowen Hu, Wanting Chen, Ting Xu, Artemiy Leonov, Chenyan Zhang, Bernhard Hommel, Tingyong Feng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21000

Modulating task outcome value to mitigate real-world procrastination via noninvasive brain stimulation
Procrastination represents one of the most prevalent behavioral problems affecting individual health and societal productivity. Although it is often conceptualized as a form of self-control failure, its underlying neurocognitive mechanisms are poorly understood. A leading model posits that procrastination arises from imbalanced competing motivations: the avoidance of negative task aversiveness and the pursuit of positive task outcomes, yet this theoretical framework has not fully validated in r…