The present study aimed to reveal the role of risk-taking and futureoriented decision making in predicting academic procrastination. The statistical sample includes 74 undergraduate and graduate students (34 females; age M=19-39, SD=5.8). The participants were recruited through announcement. Two computerized cognitive tasks, the Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART) and Delay Discounting were employed as well as Solomon and Rothblum’s academic procrastination questionnaire. Statistical analysis was done through Multiple Regression analysis, using SPSS Software. The results showed that academic procrastination can be significantly predicted by risk-taking and future-oriented decision-making (delay discounting). Interestingly, academic procrastination was positively predicted by risktaking and negatively by delay discounting, i.e., future-oriented decision making, where the ratio of picking future money (accepting high-value cheque compared to low-value cash) specifically played an important role in the delay discounting task. Therefore, optimal performance in computerized tasks can be used as indexes for procrastination in general, and here academic procrastination.
