40-year follow-up on marshmallow test points to biological basis for delayed gratification

Thursday, September 1, 2011 - 09:00 in Psychology & Sociology

A landmark study in the late 1960s and early 1970s used marshmallows and cookies to assess the ability of preschool children to delay gratification. If they held off on the [...]

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