Our commitments to other people can have a big influence on how we act—even for children who are trying to keep themselves from snacking on a tasty treat right now. Peer support helped children pass ...

Walter Mischel, a psychologist best known for the Marshmallow Test, produced his first book at the age of 84. The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control hit bookshelves in the fall of 2014, and ...

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 may not actually reflect self-control, a challenge to the long-held notion it does do just that. Moreover, the study authors note that we need to proceed carefully as we try to ...

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 ...

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

In a recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, Arthur Brooks observed out that President Obama’s budget fails the “Marshmallow Test.” In the test, children were offered one marshmallow now or a reward ...

Remember the Marshmallow experiment? That's the one to see how long a child could hold out against the temptation to eat a marshmallow, correlated with an enhanced ability at delayed gratification and ...

The first evidence of self-control and intelligence in animals was proved with the test on cuttlefish that made them wait for ...

Scene: A grim, slushy, rainy day in Mud Season. I’ve got PMS and the late winter blues. Now I’m staring down a long afternoon alone in the house with two cranky sisters who can’t stop fighting. How to ...

Originally conducted by psychologist Walter Mischel in the late 1960s, the Stanford marshmallow test has become a touchstone of developmental psychology. Children at Stanford’s Bing Nursery School, ...