Procrastination and a Theoretical Confirmation

Hoisted from the draft queue from 2/12/14:

Andrew Sullivan points to a recent study in neuroscience showing that, neurologically, we think of our future selves as different people from our current selves, and that those for whom this is especially true are more likely to prefer short-term gratification over long-term gratification than those for whom this neurological fact is less true.

This is another example of experience following theory, as I've previously noted that if you combine the concept of collective action problems with the concept of splitting people into 'time-slices', you can account for procrastination without precluding rationality.