Marshmallow test reproduced by Dr David Walsh @ wcco

Watch these kids being tempted with marshmallows as they go through the "marshmallow test". Like the one originally designed by Walter Mischel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshmallow_experiment).
And Dr David Walsh has an important message for parents to keep in mind.
Watch more kids' videos here: http://wcco.com/specialreports/marshmallow.test.kids.2.873001.html
In fact you can run a marshmallow test yourself - it's a fun and educational thing to do with small kids :) There are some homemade videos already available on Youtube.
Adult shopaholics should watch this with extra attention :)

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Marshmallow
• Test
• Experiment
• Walter
• Mischel
• David
• Walsh
• Psychology
• Delayed
• Gratification
• WCCO
• kids

[ariwcharles]

21 people ate the marshmallow before the researcher got back.

[twizy123]

or.... you come back after 15 minutes and instead of giving them another one, you take away the original marshmallow >:)

[miintwaralee]

(:

[jillsoccerstar567]

i would not even eat the one. ewwwww.

[stefano1oo1]

i wouldve sold the marshmallow to one of the other stupid kids to turn a profit and go buy a whole bag of them.

[ninasunday]

If students can wait to reward themselves with Facebook after studying instead of during study, they will gain up to 20 per cent better grades, research shows. Facebook is the new marshmallow. You can test whether you are addicted to Facebook at howtostudymethod

[Bullsfan23451]

@ariwcharles no shut up they didnt

[Mrrahmatjony]

lucu

[Foxwithglasses]

i love marshmallows!! but lust to listen to beau1976 on sound cloud

[rg0057]

@abbyratsolee , only the kid who disassembled his marshmallow truly knew the quality of the marshmallow. For all the rest knew, it might have been stale. And none of them actually knew that another one was coming.

[rg0057]

This test requires an authority figure. It's not a test of self-control, but obedience and gullibility.

It would be interesting to see the correlation between not eating the marshmallow, and being scammed later.

It bears noting that Western society is based on unsustainable debt, access to cheap foreign energy sources, pollution, and cheap foreign labor. How long will this go on? Not much longer, I think. "Success" in that society is probably not a marker for success generally.

[simplulo]

I'd like to see how kids perform on this test after watching the Disney cartoon The Grasshopper and the Ants, an excellent lesson in deferred gratification.