The Marshmallow Test: Understanding Self-control and How To Master It

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The Future and the Will: Planning requires self-control, and ego depletion leads to planning aversion (2018, background): “These showed that children who were better at delaying gratification, thereby gaining increasing rewards by orienting toward the future, grew up to be more successful than others, both socially and occupationally (Mischel, 2014).”
Development and Validation of an Instrument for Measuring Student Sustainability Competencies (2019, background): “More affective-motivational prerequisites are, for example, moral reasoning, delay of gratification [49] (the ability to resign a smaller prompt gratification in order to receive a larger gratification later), self-efficacy expectations and learning motivation [50] (implementing actions leading to a”