Delayed gratification is the ability to resist the temptation for an immediate reward in order to receive a larger reward later. Delayed gratification is never instantly satisfied. In the late 1960’s to the 1970’s Professor Walter Mischel of Stanford made an experiment. The experiment was called the Marshmallow test (Marshmallow experiment). Walter Mischel took several Nursery school students in to separate rooms. He gave each child one marshmallow and told them that they could eat the marshmallow now, or wait twenty minutes and get two marshmallows. Some kids ate the marshmallow right away, others watched the marshmallow and ate it later and some waited and got the second marshmallow. The children that ate the marshmallow immediately had lower
