Making Sen$e Sep 14 What we learned from Walter Mischel, the late creator of the marshmallow test By Paul Solman
Economy Jan 08 Watch 9:21 Can teaching kids to resist the marshmallow help pave the way to success? By PBS News Hour
Nation Jan 08 This South Bronx kid would have failed the marshmallow test. So how did he get into Yale? The marshmallow test is famous: Give a kid a marshmallow and see if he or she can show enough self-control to hold off eating it and, as a reward, enjoy a second. Its results have often be viewed as fatalistic… By Simone Pathe
Nation Jan 01 Watch 7:53 Want to keep your New Year’s resolutions? Stop living in the present and focus on the future By PBS News Hour
Nation Dec 03 ‘C’ is for Cookie, S is for self-regulation In 2011, PBS NewsHour economics correspondent Paul Solman paid a visit to Sesame Street, where he taught Grover about Walter Michel’s famous “Marshmallow Test” - a psychological experiment where a child is given a choice between eating one marshmallow… By Nora Daly
Oct 10 How to teach self-control and reduce economic inequality By Walter Mischel If taught young, self-control skills can have strong protective effects, even helping those whose vulnerabilities might make them more likely to fall behind economically. That's according to Walter Mischel, author of "The Marshmallow Test," in part four of his conversation… Continue reading
Oct 09 How former president Clinton, who couldn’t resist donuts (or other temptations), now can By Walter Mischel Each of us has our own temptations, says Walter Mischel, author of "The Marshmallow Test." For Mischel, it was smoking. For Clinton, it was junk food. Having the willpower to resist, Mischel explains, requires making the long-term consequences of each… Continue reading
Oct 09 So your kid failed the marshmallow test. Now what? By Walter Mischel The first step to overcoming temptations, like eating the marshmallow, is figuring out what makes us "hot." All of our behavior is localized, says "The Marshmallow Test" author Walter Mischel, and our vulnerabilities are no exception. Continue reading
Oct 08 What the marshmallow test really tells us By Walter Mischel From the father of the Marshmallow Test, Columbia University psychologist Walter Mischel, comes the new book, “The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self Control.”… Continue reading