The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control

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Instructional interventions that motivate classroom learning. (2016, background): “Years of research show the importance of such self-control for achievement in the short-term and in the long-term (Mischel, 2014; Moffitt et al., 2011).”
Measurement Matters: Assessing Personal Qualities Other Than Cognitive Ability for Educational Purposes (2015, background): “The most influential performance task in the large literature on self-control is the preschool delay-of-gratification paradigm, colloquially known as the “marshmallow test” (Mischel, 2014).”
Situational Strategies for Self-Control (2016, background): “Consider, again, children in a delay-of-gratification experiment (W. Mischel, 2014).”
Self-Control and Grit (2014, background): “The psychological processes that underlie self-control, once so shrouded in mystery that they were summarily referred to as “willpower,” are now coming into focus (Mischel, 2014).”
Self-Control in School-Age Children (2014, background): “…literature, there is a long tradition of studying how individuals adjudicate between conflicting impulses, beginning with James (1899) and Freud (1920) and now including an increasingly large proportion of developmental, personality, social, and clinical psychology researchers (W. Mischel, 2014).”