Despite the idea that modern technology is turning kid’s brains into that of a heroin addict, a new study actually proves the opposite. John Protzko, a researcher at the University of California at ...

Something a little lighter this morning: From Eat Me Daily, a quirky and occasionally hilarious food blog, comes a video remake of the classic “Marshmallow Test” first made famous by Stanford ...

The marshmallow test is considered one of the most famous studies on delayed gratification. It was a series of tests lead by psychologist Walter Mischel in the 1960s, which offered a child a choice ...

You’ve probably heard about the famous Stanford “Marshmallow Test” before. It’s a simple experiment designed to see how much self-control children have. First you put a marshmallow in front of them.

The premise is simple: You can eat one marshmallow now or, if you can wait, you get to eat two marshmallows later. It’s an experiment in self-control for preschoolers dreamed up by psychologist Dr.

Back in the 1960s, a researcher learned a lot about willpower from studying hundreds of four-year-olds left alone in a room with a marshmallow or cookie. Here's what the strong-willed ones had in ...

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 ...

[Editor’s note: This is an op-ed by Perry Wu, chief executive of BitGravity, a content distribution company, a long-time entrepreneur and former venture capitalist.] I was up in the mountains this ...

The marshmallow test is a simple social-science tests that was developed by Stanford psychologist Walter Mischel around six decades back. In this test a marshmallow is put before a child and they are ...