Marshmallow test points to biological basis for delayed gratification

Wednesday, August 31, 2011 - 21:30 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. A newly published follow-up revisits some of the same children, now adults.

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