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Psychology’s Blind Spot: Laziness

The marshmallow task measures patience. It does not measure willingness to exert effort

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Davide Piffer
Apr 12, 2026
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Modern psychology has no trouble talking about anxiety, impulsiveness, trauma, grit, self-control, conscientiousness, executive function, and delay discounting. But it still seems oddly reluctant to talk about laziness.

That is strange, because laziness is one of the most familiar facts of ordinary life. Everyone knows the phenomenon. A person keeps post…

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