Delayed gratification — the ability to sacrifice an immediate reward for a more valuable one in the future — can tell us a lot about intelligence. While once believed to be a uniquely human trait, ...

We live in a society that believes in immediate gratification. Buy something on Amazon. Get it within two business days, sometimes even less. Many of us can remember a time when buying something from ...

Competing intentions. We all have them; Exercise as we intended, or spend another night as couch potato. A recent study on academic delay of gratification sheds some light on the self-regulatory ...

A person’s ability to delay gratification—forgoing a smaller reward now for a larger reward in the future—may depend on how trustworthy the person perceives the reward-giver to be, according to a new ...

I Want It Now seems to be today’s mantra! “And if I don’t get the things I want……… I'm Going To Scream!” "I want it all I want it all I want it all and ...

Many years ago, there existed an option for people who wanted to purchase significant items that doesn’t exist anymore in a similar form. It was a service that most major stores (especially department ...

A team of psychologists at the University of Manchester, in the U.K., working with a colleague from Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, in Morocco, has found that children tend to behave differently ...

I know a big part of your teaching centers around the importance of learning to delay gratification. You seem to believe reaching a level of maturity where you ...

In government as in life, sometimes a good idea takes time to take root. Delayed gratification is still gratifying, though, and that’s what I experienced this week when an announcement confirmed ...