Posted on 12/10/2025 7:15:10 AM PST by PeterPrinciple
The Original Marshmallow Experiment
The Marshmallow Experiment began in the late 1960s and early 1970s at Stanford University, led by psychologist Walter Mischel and his colleagues (Mischel et al., 1972). The setup was famously simple: a child was placed at a table with a marshmallow (or sometimes a cookie or pretzel). The researcher explained that the child could eat the marshmallow immediately, but if they waited until the researcher returned—usually around 15 minutes—they would receive a second marshmallow.
The children’s reactions ranged from hilarious to heartbreaking. Some covered their eyes. Some sang to themselves. Some sniffed, stroked, or poked the marshmallow as if trying to absorb its essence without technically breaking the rules. And, yes, plenty of kids just went ahead and gobbled it down
But what made the study groundbreaking was not what happened in the moment—it was what happened years later.
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A pivotal study by Watts, Duncan, and Quan (2018) re-examined the data using a much larger and more diverse sample. Their findings suggested that when you account for variables such as family background, socioeconomic status, and early cognitive ability, the marshmallow-waiting effect becomes significantly smaller.
In other words, a child’s ability to wait wasn’t just about personal grit. It also depended heavily on:
How much the child trusted adults to follow through Whether food scarcity was an issue at home How stable or unpredictable their environment was Their previous life experiences Kids aren’t irrational. If your environment teaches you that promises often go unfulfilled, why would you trust that waiting brings reward? If food is not always guaranteed, eating now is a smart strategy.
You’re a jerk.
I engaged in conversation and you came back with some nasty shit.
I read this again and now have some second thoughts about what the message is. Maybe like wanting everything now like many young adults freshly out of college and demanding ridiculous salaries instead of working hard and working their way up to better pay or position?
Remember Pam Bondi's phase one release of the Epstein files? That turned out to be largely known information and there was no phase 2. There is no second marshmallow and the first one was a fib too. Personally, I think that a lot of Republicans were on the Epstein flights and the potential release scared the party. I am more of the opinion to release everything and if Washington burns (figuratively, of course) the better to burn it now.
Post 4 was an emotional outburst.
I’m not sure I fully understand what you’re saying?
I'm sure it is based on a misapplication of the article.
Your comment seems to focus on the final effects of a corporate entity, not an individual response to a situation where one is immature amd not initially aware of being tested.
Your assumptions re corporate behaviors are not well-founded.
Well put.
Across the population, disobedience to the warning of Scripture prevails.
Romans 13:8 (AV):Moral and fiscal accountability is at stake in this commandment. The Greek negative gere, μηδενι μηδεν. is doubly negative, about as emphatic asa one can express in the NT text. "No, never/not at all" would be the sense of it. T run up thousands, millions, bi;;ions, trillions induvudyally or nationallyis very, vert unchristian in any context; and deserves very severe chastening, even up to physical death."Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law."
You’re a jerk.
I engaged in conversation and you came back with some nasty shit.
When I tell someone to read it and let their lip move, I mean it and practice is. It increases the learning process. You think instead of skimming over words.
*snort*
Bullshit.
Your response was nasty and stuck up.
Everyone here had better get on the ball. Read how Democrats treat each other on leftist sites. Yeah, they’re psychos but the are powerful in numbers because they don’t treat other like shit ... As we do on FR.
Trump is their bogeyman and bogeymen pull people together. We here have so much confidence in our own individuality, right to defend and belief in higher power that we don’t have a bogeyman.
The unfortunate effect of that is that we aren’t pulled together at all. About 15 percent of FR content is just lashing out at each other for such petty, minor differences in opinion that is no wonder when elections come that we lose.
So no, you talked to me like shit. Cut it out and show some damned respect. Sheesh, I wanted you to go more into detail of your post and you told me I need to learn to read. *$#& you. I know how to read.
So no, you talked to me like shit. Cut it out and show some damned respect. Sheesh, I wanted you to go more into detail of your post and you told me I need to learn to read. *$#& you. I know how to read.
Again, you chose to be offended, rather than consider the content. I was very gentle and direct with you and practice everything I told you.
Since you brought the subject up.
The point of the article is understanding human nature. How human nature can be used for good and how it can be used against you.
There are other points of human nature that we need to understand. Like imprinting, God intended it for good, perverts use it for destruction. Do your own research and thinking on imprinting.
You get understanding by studying and reflecting, not skimming an article. The left is using this human nature against us. They are lying to you, They give you all the negatives without showing you the progress that has been made. THEY ARE MANIPULATING YOU. They don’t don’t want you to see the long term plans. They want you to see the short term failure.
We need to understand this bit of human nature. We need to understand it is going to take a generation to change things. We need to understand that all the little things are important and are advances.
WE NEED TO STOP REPEATING THEIR MESSAGE!
Now to the other point that offends you. Questions are good, but you need to do some thinking to learn and ask the right questions.
I will commend you for asking a question. But it scares me. People want to be told what something says. They want quick and easy answers. AI scares me to the bone. People want to be sheep to be told what to think and do.
In my world there are idiots and knuckleheads. Knuckleheads can learn, idiots do not. I honored you by considering you a knucklehead.
Knuckleheads have some honored members. I consider the 12 apostles knuckleheads. If they can learn and be corrected, so can I. There are many great leaders who were knuckleheads, they failed their way to success.
Knuckleheads are a variation of Sheep Dogs/Warriors.
https://learntocarry.com/files/On-Sheep-Wolves-And-Sheepdogs.pdf
Will you take the time to read the above. Let your lips move, print it out for you wall, explain to others what it means to you. Does the article connect with you in any way?
What has enslaved the population is the widespread disobedience to the warning given by the Noly Scriptures, summed up here:
Romans 13:8 (AV):Moral and fiscal accountability is at stake in this commandment. The Greek negative here, μηδενι μηδεν. is doubly negative, about as emphatic asa one can express in the NT text. "No, never/not ever/not at all" would be the sense of it."Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law."
To run up thousands, millions, bijjions, trillions individually or nationally is very, very unchristian in any context; and deserves very severe chastening, even up to physical death.
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