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How your brain's executive function works -- and how to improve it | Sabine Doebel

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How Long Can You Wait?

In the classic marshmallow test, kids are given a choice. If they can wait for me to go to the other room and get more marshmellows, they can have two instead. What i found was that kids who believed that their group waited for two marshmoles were themselves more likely to wait. So what this all shows is that it's just how much context matters.

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