Walter Mischel, Psychologist Famed for Marshmallow Test, Dies at 88 Walter Mischel, whose studies of delayed gratification in young children clarified the importance of self-control in human ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

March 2 (UPI) --According to a new study, cuttlefish can pass the Stanford marshmallow test, delaying the gratification of an immediate reward for a better reward later. In the 1970s, Stanford ...

The kids in that video look to be around 4 and 5 years old. I have a kid that age. I think if I tried this on my kid at home I'd get a different result than if someone he is unfamiliar with gave him ...

THE MARSHMALLOW TEST: Mastering Self-Control, by Walter Mischel. Little, Brown, 326 pp., $29. You've surely heard of the Marshmallow Test, an experiment at Stanford University in the early 1960s.

[Editor’s note: This is an op-ed by Perry Wu, chief executive of BitGravity, a content distribution company, a long-time entrepreneur and former venture capitalist.] I was up in the mountains this ...