2018-10-22

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This week we discuss the truth about the Marshmallow Test, delayed gratification, will power and success. Did anyone else's parents talk to them constantly about instant vs delayed gratification? That was just me? Explains a lot.

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REFERENCES 📚

40 Year Follow-up of kids who did the Marshmallow test: http://www.pnas.org/content/108/36/14998

Ability/willingness to wait depends on the reliability of the kid’s environment: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027712001849?via%3Dihub

Cross cultural marshmallow test looking at the effect of father absence: http://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fh0046877

Paper finding home life a better explanation of future success than the ability to delay gratification: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0956797618761661

Distraction helps kids to delay gratification: http://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fh0032198

20-year follow-up: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/244/4907/933

30-years later: https://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(12)00737-8/fulltext

Cross-cultural study on delayed reinforcement: http://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fh0041895