Wednesday, June 27, 2018

Do Today’s Kids Have More Self-Control Than Kids of the 60s?

In the 1960s, researchers conducted the original “marshmallow test” measruing the self-control levels of preschoolers as they sat in front of a treat. Most of the children in the study chose to gobble up one treat immediately rather than wait several minutes to get a bigger treat. The study was replicated in the 1980s and then again in the 2000s.

In a new study, researchers at the University of Minnesota compared the marshmallow test results from each of these generations and found that...


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source https://psychcentral.com/news/2018/06/27/do-todays-kids-have-more-self-control-than-kids-of-the-60s/136517.html

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