• Danatronic@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This was actually a major confounding factor in the original marshmallow experiment. They never thought that kids wouldn’t trust the promise of additional marshmallow later.

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      It doesn’t make any sense to not eat the marshmallow immediately if there is a slight chance of false promise