This was great fun to film! It is based on the Standford Marshmallow experiment, a study on delayed gratification that was conducted by psychologist, professor Walter Mischel back in 1972. In the study children were offered a small immediate reward or the choice to wait for the chance to get two small rewards. They had to wait for 15 minutes while the researcher left the room. If they could hold out until the researcher returned, they were given two rewards. At the time the study found that those children who were able to delay gratification tended to go on to have better life outcomes such as sat scores, educational attainment and a few other measures. However, later studies with more diverse populations showed much smaller effects, suggesting that economic background may have played an important part. #psychologytest #psychology #psychologyexperiment #psychologist #fascinatingfacts #marshmallowexperiment #mentalhealth #childdevelopment #childpsychology #therapist #understandingme #funpsychology #scienceforkids #sciencefun #sciencefacts (at London, Unιted Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEmWsqtjfuO/?igshid=un178v8jymic
