An independent publisher covering one narrow literature.

Delay Review is a small independent publication. Its subject is the research literature on procrastination, delay discounting and self-regulation — a body of work that sits across psychology, behavioural economics and clinical trial research, and that is summarised badly almost everywhere it is summarised at all.

The publication is operated from Brazil under the name Delay Review. It has no physical premises open to the public and no telephone line. All contact is by email at support@delayreview.site.

How topics are chosen

A topic enters the catalogue when three conditions hold: there is a body of peer-reviewed work on it, at least one widely repeated claim about it is weaker than its popular version, and the disagreement between researchers is documented in print rather than inferred. Topics that rest on a single study, on unpublished data, or on a claim no researcher has contested are left out.

How sources are cited

Every article carries a reference list with author names, publication year and journal. Statements in the body text name the researchers rather than gesturing at studies in general. Where a number appears, it comes from the cited paper; where a paper reports a range rather than a single figure, the range is given.

Sample size, study design and population are stated whenever they bear on how far a result travels. A result from a sample of undergraduates is described as a result from a sample of undergraduates.

Corrections

Errors are corrected on the page where they appeared, with a dated note at the foot of the article describing what changed. Corrections are not made silently. Where a correction changes the meaning of a summary rather than a detail, the note says so.

Corrections can be reported to support@delayreview.site. A message identifying the article, the passage and the source that contradicts it will be reviewed and answered.

What Delay Review does not do

• It does not provide therapy, counselling, coaching or any professional service.
• It does not diagnose, assess or treat any condition.
• It does not review individual circumstances or answer questions about a reader's own situation.
• It does not publish testimonials, reviews, success stories or before-and-after accounts, and does not solicit them from readers or purchasers.
• It does not state or imply that reading anything published here will produce a result.
• It does not operate a crisis service.

How Delay Review advertises

Delay Review pays to distribute some of its material through advertising platforms. The rules below apply to every advertisement placed.

• Advertisements make no assumption about the person who sees them. They do not state or imply knowledge of anyone's habits, circumstances, health, employment, finances or state of mind, and they do not address the viewer as though that were known.
• Advertisements describe the subject matter of the material — the research being summarised — rather than describing the reader.
• The destination page corresponds to the advertisement that leads to it. An advertisement about a body of research leads to material about that body of research, at the same publication, with the same claims and the same exclusions.
• Advertisements carry no promise of outcome, no urgency device, no countdown and no claim of limited availability.
• Advertisements are not targeted on the basis of sensitive personal characteristics.

Commercial disclosure

Delay Review is a commercial publisher. Some material is offered for purchase, and revenue from those sales funds the editorial work.

The publication accepts no sponsorship, no advertising placement from third parties and no payment for editorial coverage. No researcher, institution or company named in an article has paid for that coverage or reviewed it before publication. Where a link to an outside publisher or journal is included, it is an unpaid reference.

Purchases are handled by a third-party payment processor. The refund policy and the terms of use govern those transactions.