Walter Mischel’s Marshmallow Study | Mind Changers

Duration: 27'47''

Synopsis

Claudia Hammond meets Walter Mischel, the psychologist whose Marshmallow Test has become one of the longest-running and most influential studies in the psychology of personality.

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