Cognitive control is a term used to describe the processes that enable us to think, feel, and act in flexible, goal-directed ways. Psychologists have been fascinated by the concept of cognitive ...

A team of psychologists at the University of Manchester, in the U.K., working with a colleague from Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, in Morocco, has found that children tend to behave differently ...

The cephalopod cuttlefish has passed a famous psychological “marshmallow” test designed to gauge the propensity for delayed gratification in children. The findings indicate that these sea creatures ...

An eye-opening experiment on cephalopods reinforces why it is so important for us to not underestimate animal intelligence. A study published in 2021 presented cuttlefish with a new version of the ...

Kids and sweets make for a thoroughly compatible combination. Children yearn for the sticky syrup of melted ice cream dribbling down the sides of waffle cones, or the gummy candy that stubbornly ...

Around 1970, Walter Mischel launched a classic experiment. He left a succession of 4-year-olds in a room with a bell and a marshmallow. If they rang the bell, he would come back and they could eat the ...