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  • November 2021
  • Article

People Overestimate the Self-Presentation Costs of Deadline Extension Requests
By: Ashley V. Whillans, Jaewon Yoon and Grant Donnelly
Across five studies (N = 4,151), we investigate a novel barrier that prevents people from making personally beneficial requests: the overestimation of self-presentation costs. Even when deadlines are easily adjustable, people are less likely to request an extension and...  View Details
Keywords: Extension Request; Help Request; Task Deadlines; Self-presentation; Meta-perceptions; Time Management; Behavior; Perception
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