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Try to Resist Misinterpreting the Marshmallow Test
Watching a four-year-old take the marshmallow test has all the funny-sad cuteness of watching a kitten that can’t find its way out of a shoebox. The child sits with a marshmallow inches from her face.
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The “marshmallow test” said patience was a key to success. A new replication tells us s’more.
Here’s some good news: Your fate cannot be determined solely by a test of your ability at age 5 to resist the temptation of one marshmallow for 15 minutes to get two marshmallows. This relieving
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Why Delayed Gratification in the Marshmallow Test Doesn’t Equal Success
If you give a kid a marshmallow, she’s going to ask for a graham cracker. And maybe some milk. Eventually, she’ll want another marshmallow. (Or so the popular children’s book goes.) But if you ask
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A New Approach to the Marshmallow Test Yields Complicated Findings
A new study on the classic “marshmallow test” suggests that the widely studied link between children’s ability to delay gratification and their life outcomes is heavily influenced by social and economic backgrounds.
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Passing the Marshmallow Test May Be More About Smarts Than Self-Control, Study Says
The historic “marshmallow test” has tied young children’s ability to delay gratification to their long-term success, but a new, larger study replicating the famous study puts those long-term results in doubt. Using a significantly larger
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Identifying with others who control themselves could strengthen your own self-control
Is self-control something you can acquire, like a new language or a taste for opera? Or is it one of those things you either have or don’t, like fashion sense or a knack for telling
