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 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 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 ...

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 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 ...

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, ...

EXCLUSIVE: Production is underway in Vancouver on The Marshmallow Experiment, a raunchy coming-of-age comedy from Canadian production and finance company Big Picture Cinema Group. The U.S.-Canada ...