Notes1. The term has been suggested before, at least on the Internet. We use a hyphen to reduce the chance the word is read as “procrastination.”2. In our lab, we have conducted many experiments using “do-whatever-is-easier” instructions. The experiments have always yielded sensible results; for a review, see Rosenbaum, Chapman, Weigelt, Weiss, and van der Wel (2012). We were sure the participants in all the experiments reported here cor- rectly understood what they were supposed to do.3. We report Experiments 1, 2, and 3 as three separate experi- ments rather than one because we added weight to the buck- ets in Experiment 2 after obtaining the results we did in Experiment 1, and we added still more weight to the buckets in Experiment 3 after obtaining the results we did in Experiment 2. 4. Elizabeth Bjork told the first author that the late William K. Estes, the first editor of Psychological Science, was surprised to learn, when she asked him about this, that he had never consid- ered walking down a long hallway from his office at Rockefeller University and then down the stairs, rather than walking imme- diately to the stairs that were closer to his office, going down those stairs, and then going down the long hallway that would take him to the same destination.