Sentence examples for wait for two marshmallows from inspiring English sources
All those decades ago, Mischel suspected that, if children were to wait for two marshmallows, they first required an essential belief that their promise would be kept.
Referencing a classic psychological experiment on gratification, she added: There's a two-year-old in the back of our minds that's still there that we've learned to overrule that wants to have their one marshmallow now rather than wait for two marshmallows.
When he followed up decades later, he found that the 4-year-olds who waited for two marshmallows turned into adults who were better adjusted, were less likely to abuse drugs, had higher self-esteem, had better relationships, were better at handling stress, obtained higher degrees and earned more money.
Wait for five to seven days.
Almost all of the kids opted for two marshmallows later, and at that point Mischel left the children in a room by themselves with the marshmallows right there in front of them.
He describes, for example, the famous "marshmallow experiment" of the psychologist Walter Mischel, whose studies, starting in the late 1960s, found that children who mustered the self-control to resist eating a marshmallow right away in return for two marshmallows later on did better in school and were more successful as adults.
The patients waited for two hours".
Then they waited for three years.
We had been waiting for five hours.
