Don't eat the marshmallow

The marshmallow experiment was the idea of a professor of ... at Stanford University.

• psychology

• economics

• social studies

He put children aged ... alone in a room with a marshmallow.

• two

• three

• four

He told them that, if they didn't eat the marshmallow, he would give them...when he returned.

• a prize

• another marshmallow

Then he left for ... minutes.

• 5

• 10

• 15

• 50

....out of three children ate the marshmallow.

• 1

• 2

• 3

According to Joachim de Posada, the most important principle for success is self-...

Fifteen years later, ...% of the children that hadn't eaten the marshmallow were successful.

A lot of the kids who ate the marshmallow were in trouble: they had bad ...

De Posada wanted to know if Hispanic kids would react in the same way, so he repeated the experiment in...