Revisiting a famous marshmallow experiment: Children more likely to delay gratification if peer promises to wait as well

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 during the famous Stanford marshmallow experiment if they have a partner who is willing to wait for a better option. In their study, published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, the group conducted variations on the famous children’s experiments.

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