Walter Mischel, a psychologist best known for the Marshmallow Test, produced his first book at the age of 84. The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control hit bookshelves in the fall of 2014, and ...

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“It’s like surveying 50 people and saying you can predict a national election based on that.” In 2014, Mischel published his own account of the experiment and its reception, “The Marshmallow Test: ...

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Good things come to those who wait—especially for the cuttlefish hanging out with Alexandra Schnell, a comparative psychologist at the University of Cambridge in England. For the past decade, Schnell ...

For decades, studies have shown that children able to resist temptation—opting to wait for two marshmallows later rather than take one now—tend to do better on measures of health and success later in ...