Making Sen$e Sep 14 What we learned from Walter Mischel, the late creator of the marshmallow test Psychologist Walter Mischel's marshmallow test studied the concept of delayed gratification and its correlation to economic success. By Paul Solman
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