%0 Journal Article %T So what if the clock strikes? Scheduling style, control, and well-being. %+ State University of New York (SUNY) %+ Yeshiva University %A Sellier, Anne-Laure %A Avnet, Tamar %< avec comité de lecture %@ 0022-3514 %J Journal of Personality and Social Psychology %I American Psychological Association %V 107 %N 5 %P 791-808 %8 2014-11 %D 2014 %R 10.1037/a0038051 %K Scheduling style %K clock-time %K personal control %K well-being %K self-regulation %Z Humanities and Social Sciences/Business administration/domain_shs.gestion.markJournal articles %X Individuals vary in the way they schedule their daily tasks and activities. In particular, 2 scheduling styles are commonly followed: clock-time (where tasks are organized based on a clock) and event-time (where tasks are organized based on their order of completion). This research shows that adopting a clock-time or an event-time scheduling style has consequences that go beyond the direct effect on task organization. In particular, adopting 1 scheduling style versus the other is shown to potentially influence personal control and well-being. We demonstrate that the reliance on clock- versus event-time affects individuals’ perception of the causal relationship between events in the social world (Experiments 1 and 2). Specifically, we show that individuals following clock-time rather than event-time discriminate less between causally related and causally unrelated events, which in turn increases their belief that the world is controlled by chance or fate. In contrast, individuals following event-time (vs. clock-time) appear to believe that things happen more as a result of their own actions. We further show that this difference in internal locus of control compromises the ability of individuals following clock-time to savor positive emotions (Experiments 3a–5). We discuss the implications of these findings for future research in social and cognitive psychology. %G English %L hal-01097582 %U https://hec.hal.science/hal-01097582 %~ SHS %~ HEC