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Walter Mischel Packs Just Essentials for the Tour for His Book ‘The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control’
The Wall Street Journal: Walter Mischel has flown around the world many times during his career, lecturing at universities about his psychological research into how our minds and brains enable us to exert self-control. A
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What 60 Years of Research Has Taught Us About Willpower
Inc.: The marshmallow experiment shouldn’t need an introduction. In the early 1960s, a group of preschoolers at Stanford University’s Bing Nursery School participated in a study that would change how psychologists think about willpower. Preschoolers
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Apple or Ice Cream? The Mechanics of a Healthy Choice
You’ve been trying to lose some weight, but you also get hungry for a snack in the evening. So imagine you go to the kitchen to check out your options, and you find apples and
