The Marshmallow Test:
A simple way to see if children have the ability to delay gratification.
Delayed gratification is the ability to resist an immediate reward in favor of a larger, more significant reward in the future.
Walter Mischel conducted a well-known psychological experiment called The Marshmallow Test in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The experiment aimed to test children's ability to delay gratification and its implications for succes…
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