The Marshmallow Test: What Does It Really Measure? - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/06/marshmallow-test/561779/
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❝the new study finds limited support for the idea that being able to delay gratification leads to better outcomes. Instead, it suggests that the capacity to hold out for a second marshmallow is shaped in large part by a child’s social and economic (1/2)
@koantig Maia Szalavitz goes into this in Unbroken Brain, though I couldn’t find the marshmallow test specifically in the index. https://www.amazon.com/Unbroken-Brain-Revolutionary-Understanding-Addiction/dp/1250116449/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1528044867&sr=8-1&keywords=unbroken+brain+by+maia+szalavitz She talks a lot about how childhood trauma can shape tendencies towards addictive behavior.
background—and, in turn, that that background, not the ability to delay gratification, is what’s behind kids’ long-term success.❞
#richesse #inégalités #étude_récente (2/2)
(OP by fil @ https://seen.li/ezi4)