The Marshmellow Study

Stephanie: What do you and what does your field of psychology have to say about this notion anticipation of the consumption of something, and delaying the consumption ofSomething? Well, as you know, there's a lot of research over the last, say, 60 years on delay of gratification. When the right choice, as it were, is to delay gratification,. This plays out in the famous marsh mellow task where four year old children are given the following choice, two marsh mellows later, or one marsh mellow. And they only keep going with the experiment if the child says, i would really prefer to have two later. But let me ask it, look, this is not