  laziness (also called indolence) is a disinclination to activity or exertion despite having the ability to do so. it is often used as a pejorative; related terms for a person seen to be lazy include couch potato, slacker, and bludger. despite sigmund freud's discussion of the pleasure principle, leonard carmichael notes that "laziness is not a word that appears in the table of contents of most technical books on psychology... it is a guilty secret of modern psychology that more is understood about the motivation of thirsty rats and hungry pecking pigeons as they press levers or hit targets than is known about the way in which poets make themselves write poems or scientists force themselves into the laboratory when the good golfing days of spring arrive." a 1931 survey found that high school students were more likely to attribute their failing performance to laziness, while teachers ranked "lack of ability" as the major cause, with laziness coming in second. laziness may also be a by-product of many underlying mental health issues and forms of psychopathology such as depression, adhd, sleep disorders, and schizophrenia,http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/schizophrenia/index.shtmlhttp://guilfordjournals.com/doi/abs/10.1521/adhd.10.1.6.20567?journalcode=adhd==religious views== in which case it is known as avolition. ==particular societies== from 1909 to 1915, the rockefeller sanitary commission for the eradication of hookworm disease sought to eradicate hookworm infestation from 11 southern u.s. states. hookworms were popularly known as "the germ of laziness" because they produced listlessness and weakness in the people they infested. hookworms infested 40 percent of southerners and were identified in the north as the cause of the south's alleged backwardness. it was alleged that indolence was the reason for backward conditions in indonesia, such as the failure to implement green revolution agricultural methods. but
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