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Episode 23: Celeste Kidd, UC Berkeley, on attention and curiosity, how we form beliefs, and where certainty comes from

Generally Intelligent

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The Stanford Marshmallow Task Experiment

There was a sidestep into this self control literature the Walter Michelle was a marshmallow test. If the environment feels you should explain it but if the environment feels less stable than the child will not work well earlier. The story of that study started many years earlier. I had been working in a homeless shelter when somebody told me about the Walter Michelle Stanford marshmallow task experiments and they weren't referring to the original ones.

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