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My Favorite Six Excerpts from The Marshmallow Test

My Favorite Six Excerpts from The Marshmallow Test

Delaying immediate gratification is an acquirable cognitive skill

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Dennis Wisco
Oct 07, 2022
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The Marshmallow Test conducted originally by Stanford Professor of Psychology, Walter Mischel, is one of the most famous experiments on delayed gratification. His premise was that “the ability to delay immediate gratification for the sake of future consequences is an acquirable cognitive skill.”

This experiment has been replicated many times throughout d…

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