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, ...

We live in a society that believes in immediate gratification. Buy something on Amazon. Get it within two business days, sometimes even less. Many of us can remember a time when buying something from ...

Delayed gratification is supposed to lead to greater rewards. Sometimes. A famous study in the late 1960s by Stanford psychologist Walter Mischel involved preschool children at Stanford’s nursery ...

Editorial: The marshmallow test is one of the best demonstrations of humans struggling to opt for delayed reward over instant gratification. Children are asked to sit with a marshmallow in front of ...

The ability to delay gratification can lead to long-term physical, mental as well as financial well-being. Daniel Kahneman, who died on 27 March, was best known for debunking the notion of ‘homo ...

The ancient philosopher Epicurus was committed to empiricism, the view that our knowledge comes from our senses and can be tested against other empirical experiences. This is the view that underlies ...