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, ...

While Eurasian jays and New Caledonian crows can practice delayed gratification by waiting for access to higher-quality food, jays adjust this self-control behavior depending on the social context.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two strong income investments that pay you to do nothing more than hold them. Doing less often results in more success; don't fiddle idly. Yields up to 6% are discussed. We live in a society that ...

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 ...

Kids and sweets make for a thoroughly compatible combination. Children yearn for the sticky syrup of melted ice cream dribbling down the sides of waffle cones, or the gummy candy that stubbornly ...