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Prior to the marshmallow experiment at Stanford, Walter Mischel had shown that the child's belief that the promised delayed rewards would actually be delivered is an important determinant of the choice to delay, but his later experiments did not take this factor into account or control for individual variation in beliefs about reliability when ...
Some children broke down and ate the marshmallow, whereas others were able to delay gratification and earn the coveted two marshmallows. In follow-up experiments, Mischel found that children were able to wait longer if they used certain "cool" distraction techniques (covering their eyes, hiding under the desk, singing songs, [20] or imagining ...
Present bias is the tendency to settle for a smaller present reward rather than wait for a larger future reward, in a trade-off situation. [1] [2] It describes the trend of overvaluing immediate rewards, while putting less worth in long-term consequences. [3]
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Wait But Why (WBW) is a website founded by Tim Urban and Andrew Finn and written and illustrated by Urban. The site covers a range of subjects as a long-form blog. [1] Typical posts involve long-form discussions of various topics, including artificial intelligence, outer space, and procrastination, using a combination of prose and rough illustrations.
His studies with preschoolers in the late 1960s often referred to as "the marshmallow experiment", examined the processes and mental mechanisms that enable a young child to forgo immediate gratification and to wait instead for a larger desired but delayed reward. The test was simple: give the child an option between an immediate treat or more ...
In the second experiment, the objects to be carried were cups that were either full or half full of water. [8] The conclusion of the research is split into two parts. For experiment one the researchers had the following statement: “The results of Experiment 1 showed that precrastination generalizes to the ordering of tasks (or task subgoals)."
These experiments likely entered public awareness due to the cuteness factor of little kids eating marshmallows, however they were primary research and should not be covered in a separate WP article. The specific guideline is "Do not base an entire article on primary sources, and be cautious about basing large passages on them."