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 ...

The Marshmallow Test, a landmark study by psychologist Walter Mischel in the late 1960s and early 1970s, provided groundbreaking insights into delayed gratification and self-control. In this test, ...

You've probably heard of the infamous "marshmallow test," in which young children are asked to wait to eat a yummy marshmallow placed in front of them while left alone in a room for 10 to 15 minutes.

National News Walter Mischel, Psychologist Famed for Marshmallow Test, Dies at 88 Walter Mischel, whose studies of delayed gratification in young children clarified the importance of self-control in ...

Walter Mischel, a revolutionary psychologist with a specialty in personality theory, died of pancreatic cancer on Sept. 12. He was 88. Mischel was most famous for the marshmallow test, an experiment ...

I have two small children, so what am I looking for from these studies is not confirmation of this behaviour. What would be more useful is what parenting strategies can I use to increase the self ...

Cuttlefish are known to be the most intelligent of the invertebrates. They're even smarter than we thought, according to this test on delayed gratification.