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A new take on the marshmallow test
15 October 2020
Children wait longer for a treat when their reputation is at stake.
- Children, young people and families
- Social and behavioural
Rural Cameroonian pre-schoolers just aced Mischel’s iconic Marshmallow Test
07 July 2017
Comparing the performance of 125 four-year-olds from urban middle-class Germany with the performance of dozens of four-year-olds from the Nso farming families of rural Cameroon.
- Children, young people and families
- Developmental
- Race, ethnicity and culture
Circle time rituals help children beat the Marshmallow Test of self-control
03 March 2017
A new study in says there is something about the conformity and attention to detail in ritualistic games that makes them a highly effective way to improve children’s executive functioning and self-control.
- Developmental
This is what happened when psychologists gave toddlers a version of the classic Marshmallow Test
05 April 2018
The US psychologist Walter Mischel famously tested children’s ability – aged four to six – to delay immediate gratification with his “Marshmallow Experiment”.
- Developmental
Children of today are better at delaying gratification than previous generations
20 September 2017
What did John Protzko at the University of California, Santa Barbara, find when he analysed 50 years worth of performance data on the Marshmallow Test?
- Children, young people and families
- Developmental
The master of self-control
01 December 2014
Walter Mischel speaks to Lance Workman about his famous ‘Marshmallow Test’ and more.
- Decision making
- Personality and self
Haunted houses and the ghosts of psychology past: the week’s best psychology links
01 November 2019
Our weekly round-up of the best psychology coverage from elsewhere on the web.
- Research
Link Feast
19 October 2012
In case you missed them – 10 of the best psychology links from the past week.
- Research
Celebrating the Mind Changers
27 September 2019
We collect links to Claudia Hammond's radio series, and our related coverage.
- History and philosophy
Be warned: The troubling expectation of regret
12 September 2023
An exclusive extract from ‘What Makes Us Social?’, by Chris Frith and Uta Frith.
- Cognition and perception
- Decision making
- Emotion
Life at the edge
24 January 2024
Maggie Jackson with adapted excerpt from 'Uncertain: The Wisdom and Wonder of Being Unsure' (Prometheus Books).
- Cognition and perception
- Decision making
- Poverty
‘We human beings are just flashes of sunlight on a pond’
07 June 2023
Richard Fisher is the author of ‘The Long View: Why We Need to Transform How the World Sees Time’. Alina Ivan asks him about that psychological relationship.
- Cognition and perception