The marshmallow test, or Stanford marshmallow experiment, is pretty straightforward. A child is placed in a room with a ...

Among South Asians, delayed gratification often isn’t just a habit—it’s an inherited instinct. Delayed gratification can be ...

This was unreplicable for several reasons. First, "prisoners" were not protected from the "guards," which cannot be allowed ...

The Stanford prison experiment conducted by Dr. Philip Zimbardo in that university’s basement in 1971 should be familiar to anyone who’s cracked a psychology textbook in the last 40 years.