Kids Delaying Gratification

John Protzko, Ph.D., is a cognitive scientist at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research is focused on the development of intelligence.He received his Ph.D. in Psychological Development and his Master’s in Educational Psychology, both from New York University. Many of us are familiar with the famous Stanford marshmallow experiment, which showed that kids who exercise self-control often have more success in life. What you probably don’t know is that researchers have been doing the same experiment on kids for the past 50 years. The results may surprise you. Children today are actually better at delaying gratification than any generation that has come before them. John Protzko analyzed 50 years’ worth of data on this issue and shares his findings.