In the late 1960s, Walter Mischel conducted a series of experiments on delayed gratification in preschoolers that became known as the Marshmallow Test. A recent
New Yorker article talks about the eventual path that his research took and its wider implications.
New research points to specific differences in brain activity between people with good self control and people with poor self control.
Promising scientific findings aside, it's the (adorable)
movie re-enactment of the marshmallow tests that is making news recently.
posted by hindmost
on Sep 18, 2009 -
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"Self Control" is a song written by Giancarlo Bigazzi, Steve Piccolo, and Raffaele Riefoli in 1983; like many well-written pop songs, good musicians and production can make it better, but bad musicians have to work hard to destroy it. Without comment on which is which, here are five versions:
RAF (1983, performed by one of the song's credited writers);
Laura Branigan (1984);
Soraya Arnelas (2006--this version reached #1 on the Spanish Hot 100); the Danish dance band
Infernal (2006); and
Caramelle featuring Nitro (2007, from a German label).
posted by Prospero
on Sep 10, 2007 -
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