Publication Date:
2011-10-12
Description:
The article in PNAS by Casey et al. (1) reports previously undescribed data from individuals who participated as preschoolers in Mischel's now-classic delay of gratification studies conducted at Stanford University's Bing Nursery School in the early 1970s. Now in their mid-40s, these individuals performed a Go–No-go task, in which they were instructed to press a key when a certain stimulus (e.g., fearful face) was presented but to refrain from responding when another stimulus (e.g., happy face) was presented. Individuals who as children had resisted eating an enticing treat, such as a marshmallow, and instead waited up to 15 min for...
Print ISSN:
0027-8424
Electronic ISSN:
1091-6490
Topics:
Biology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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