If you’ve taken a psychology class, you’ve probably come across the marshmallow experiment first performed by Walter Mischel and colleagues. Adorable pre-school kids were sat down in front of a ...

A team of psychologists from the University of Manchester, UK, in collaboration with a colleague from Mohammed VI Polytechnic University in Morocco, has explored how the presence of a partner ...

The study, and its follow-up studies, are considered landmark explorations of the ideas of willpower and impulsivity. Now a group of researchers from The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, ...

Back in 2021, a test of cephalopod smarts reinforced how important it is for us humans to not underestimate animal intelligence. Cuttlefish were given a new version of the marshmallow test, and the ...

A team of psychologists at the University of Manchester, in the U.K., working with a colleague from Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, in Morocco, has found that children tend to behave differently ...

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 ...