Marshmallows revisited…

21May09

Pink and White Marshmallows, originally uploaded by Craig Jewell. “TED has reached 100,000 Facebook fans today! Thank you, TEDsters — Here is the premiere of Joachim de Posada’s talk “Don’t Eat the Marshmallow” exclusively for you. Please enjoy the high-definition talk from TED U 2009.” Update: Now it’s on the TED site:

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marshmallows

19Mar09

The BBC has revisited Walter Mischel’s “marshmallow” experiments: If you’re in Britain you can watch it for a while here. Outside, and later, see an excerpt here. Jonathan Haidt refers to it in the chapter one of The Happiness Hypothesis: Imagine that it is 1970 and you are a four-year-old child in an experiment being [...]

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