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 ...

Since the late 1960s, marshmallows have been a symbol of temptation thanks to a series of experiments on delayed gratification conducted at Stanford University. Now, those groundbreaking tests are the ...

Oscar Wilde famously said: “I can resist anything but temptation.” In his recent book, The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control, psychologist Walter Mischel argues that children can be taught to ...

In the 1960s and 1970s, Walter Mischel and his colleagues began a study with 500 nursery school children of faculty and graduate students at Stanford University. These researchers were interested in ...

This post originally appeared on LearnVest. The holiday season is officially in full swing. And that signals a spirit of indulgence for the next few weeks, whether it means splurging on a ...

Now, Mischel has gathered his entire body of research on resisting the siren song of temptation in a new book, "The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control" (Little, Brown and Co.). The book is part ...

"The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control" (Little, Brown and Co.) Between 1968 and 1974, more than 600 students at Bing Nursery School in Palo Alto, Calif., took part in the "marshmallow test," ...

In the 1970s, the late psychologist Walter Mischel explored the importance of the ability to delay gratification as a child to one’s future success in life, via the famous Stanford “marshmallow ...

Between 1968 and 1974, more than 600 students at Bing Nursery School in Palo Alto, Calif., took part in the “marshmallow test,” one of the most famous studies in psychology. The “test” was the ...

Imagine hundreds of 4-year-olds each alone in a room with a delectable cookie or a scrumptious marshmallow. Before they reach for the enticing confection, an experimenter offers them a choice: they ...

Whether it’s learning to say “no” to dessert or saving more for retirement, most of us could use a little more willpower. Mastering self-control can be as simple as training our brains to think “hot” ...

Self-restraint is a personal virtue showing physical, emotional and verbal self-control. Children often have a natural impatient sense of entitlement, self-gratification and self-absorption. Only ...